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Leonardo da Vinci the precursor of Publish AND Perish ---- not Publish OR Perish -- the present model is dead!

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on
Dear Imechanica friends
  I recently pointed to a very interesting paper by Fabio Casati and collegues from Trento University in Italy.
They say PUBLISH AND PERISH: WHY THE CURRENT PUBLICATIONAND REVIEW MODEL IS
KILLING RESEARCH AND WASTING YOUR MONEY
as opposed to the current mania to PUBLISH and killing yourself with writing papers.

How to get the FEM mesh from the optical micrography picture files with extension .tif or gif...

Submitted by hamanh on

Dear all,

 I am trying to simulate the local stresses and strains in a dual-phase metal and total behaviour of this metal in ABAQUS-6.7, what I have is the optical microscopic pictures of phases inside the metal which has been measured by some help of physicists. The pictures are of extension file name .tif ad .gif. How could I construct a mesh in Abaqus with this colorful pictures ?

Any help is appreciated much. Thanks in advance

Regards

Hamanh

The Fourth International Conference on Forensic Engineering

Submitted by Javi Rua on

The Fourth International Conference on Forensic Engineering

From Failure to Understanding



2nd – 4th December 2008

Institution of Civil Engineers

London, UK

Web 2.0 and Medicine

Submitted by MichelleLOyen on

I stumbled across this interesting blog post yesterday concerning an upcoming course on medicine via web 2.0.   It appeared quite interesting from several perspectives: first, medicine is often associated with being behind the times on technology but this all looks pretty current, secondly it may be the most comprehensive listing of topics I have seen where web 2.0 is applied to a single discipline, and finally it made me wonder what more we could do with mechanics via web 2.0 beyon

Effect of Surface Morphology on the Stability of Thin Nanostructures

Submitted by Ashfaq Adnan on

We have recently studied the atomic scale structural stability of
freestanding wavy gold (Au) nanofilms using molecular dynamics
simulations. In recent years, wavy or patterned structurs have shown great promise for applications in various emerging technologies including fuel cells
engineering, tissue engineering, biomedical engineering, creation
of counterfeit-resistant documents , nanolithography in microelectronics, optoelectronics, nanomachinesand many others. It is out of question that the success of these novel applications lies on one crucial factor – the

About a work on theoretical modeling

Submitted by rrahman on

Hi

I am a graduate student at University of Alabama. I am working on Stochastic modeling of damage evolution. Recently I have finished the mathematical/theoretical modeling section. I haven't done any Numerical or FEA simulation or experimental analysis. In this first phase I emphasized on the mathematical formulation and some short proofs. I wish to submit this work to a relevent journal. Can anyone please let me know if there is any suitable journal for this kind purely theoretical as well as solid/applied mechanics work related to stochastic modeling of damage mechanics?