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Newsletter for the ASME Committee on Constitutive Equations - Summer 2008

Submitted by Gregory M. Odegard on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 18:17

Mechanics community,

Please find attached the summer 2008 edition of the ASME Committee on Constitutive Equations Newsletter. Included in the newletter is an article written by Prof. Ostoja-Starzewski on "Homogenization and Size of Representative Volume Element (RVE)".

Thanks,

Greg Odegard

Accounting for the overhang (or under etch) in MEMS resonantor structures

Submitted by adiga on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 15:14

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Overhang or under etch in cantilever resonantor structures

Hi,

I am wondering if there is a simple way to account for the overhang (or the under etch) in cantilever resonator structures when we are estimating for the resonant frequency of the same. It will be a great help.

Thanks,

Vivek Adiga

welcoming suggestions

Submitted by raulito on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 15:12

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dorn

Hello

There are no assistantships offered for this. But I would give credit to the person who is brave (or foolish) enough to try to extend my results to the Dorn-Harper or Dorn Rajnak models

Any takers. You wont fail in my course.

How to model a unit cell on ABAQUS

Submitted by gigidili on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 10:33

education

Hi. Please i want to know (from basics) how to model a unit cell and assign it properties as i need this for my ongoing dissertation.

Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Solid Mechanics

Submitted by Dirk Mohr on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 09:20

job

A postdoctoral researcher position is available at the Solid Mechanics Laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique (Paris). The aim of this postdoctoral research project is to investigate the mechanical behavior of a newly-developed all-metal sandwich sheet material for automotive and aerospace applications. The ultimate goal is to optimize the characteristic sandwich core structure for formability, crashworthiness and fatigue life. This research makes use of experimental, theoretical and computational mechanics.

Journal Club for 15 June 2008: Kinetics of Structural Phase Transformations

Submitted by Kaushik Dayal on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 18:34

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“Leading Opinion: Peer review as professional responsibility: A quality control system only as good as the participants.

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 17:58

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review process

ethics in science

persistent nepotism in peer review

Effect of constraint on interface fracture toughness

Submitted by Siva P V Nadimpalli on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 16:38

Hi All,

I have a question in my mind, we all know that the fracture toughness of isotropic, homogeneous materials is dependent on state of stress (plane strain and plane stress). It is higher in case of plane stress and decreases as the constraint increases and attains a constant value which we call "plane strain fracture toughness". But, what about the fracture toughness in interfaces? or fracture of thin layer bonded between two substrates (adhesive type)? I am sure that it will be a function of this as well.