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China: The prizes and pitfalls of progress

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

Remember when I spoke of the Easterlin paradox (a key concept in happiness economics postulated by Richard Easterlin in the 1974 paper "Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence."[1]
It finds that, contrary to expectation, happiness at a national level

interfacing between matlab and ansys

Submitted by sabareesme on

i have an optimization program for structural problem in Matlab software. i found design variables from  Matlab. i want to interface this program in to ansys softare to find optimum stress and strain. how can i interface matlab program in to ansys. if any sample tutorilas please send me. 

abaqus umat

Submitted by yongtao lu on

hi

I constructed a head model, which includes muscle, soft tissue, skin and bone. I wrote user material subroutine (umat) for muscle and soft tissue, seperately. I am going to define the muscle and soft tissues properties by using my umats. However, I dont know how to define two user material subroutines (umat) in one model. The subroutines share the same name: subroutine umat(...). If I assign two umats, ABAQUS will be confused, wont know which subroutine to go. Is there anybody who knows how to sort this out?

Many thanks,

ben

Making the Right Moves

Submitted by Roozbeh Sanaei on

 

Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific
Management for Postdocs and New Faculty

Based on courses held in 2002 and 2005 by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and
HHMI, this book is a collection of practical advice and experiences from
seasoned biomedical investigators. The second edition contains three new
chapters on laboratory leadership, project management, and teaching and course
design.

Postdoctoral position in multiphysics and nanoscale mechanics modeling

Submitted by Harley T. Johnson on

A postdoctoral research position is available immediately in the Johnson research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  The position will involve continuum finite element modeling of multiphysics and interfacial phenomena in micro- and nanoscale electronic materials processing applications.

Mars and Venus - How Europeans and Americans View and Use Science - ESOF July20th -Part 1: The Eu Perspective -

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

From ESOF, an interesting presentation, attached. 

Mars and Venus

How Europeans and Americans

View and Use Science<

Part 1: The European Perspective

Dr Roland Schenkel, Director General, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)

 Some quotes

Xu and Needleman: Potential function in 3-D

Submitted by Truong on

Dear all,

I am improving the cohesive zone model in 2-D proposed by Y.F. Gao to simulate delamination between sub-micron thick films in 3-D. However, I did not find the potential function proposed by Xu and Needleman in 3-D. If you know it please tell me

Here is the potential function proposed by of Xu and Needleman in 2-D (in Y.F Gao’s paper)

The potential function proposed by Xu and Needleman in 3-D ??????

Application for P.h.D Position in Civil Engieering

Submitted by h.l.Li on

hi,all

  I am glad that i can get much information about P.h.D position here.Now i have been attending my p.h.d in HuNan Universtiy in China for one year,majoring in civil engineering.I am working about bridge engineering and wind resistance.In China,goverment has provides some opportunity to co-cultivate with other international University.It meas that i can go abroad for some time,say one to two years,to study.But first i should get a invitation from them.Who can give me some information about P.h.D position.any reply is appreciated.

Position "Lead Mechanical Engineer IV" in Germany

Submitted by Edward W. Walbridge on

Reliability
Analysis Associates, Inc.

1440 North Lake Shore Drive, #30F,
Chicago, IL 60610

Phone:
312-274-0542;  Fax: 312-274-0574;  E-mail: reliability [at] nidus.com

Specializing in
the recruitment of Reliability, Maintainability,

Test,
Logistics, and System Safety Engineers

 

RAA, Inc. is seeking candidates
for the position described below: