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Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

I have quite a few things to tell...

My PhD defence at the University of Pune is already over.

I have also received post-doc offers, one from a group at MIT Boston, as well as another one from the University of California, Berkeley. The two offers followed within hours of each other. The jobs are in the computational sciences/engineering areas; the people were impressed by what I did in my PhD as well as my iMechanica writings.

cracking analysis OF a 3-points bended sandwich beam in the negative stressed area of the beam (above the neutral axis)

Submitted by Ilias I. Tourl… on

Hi,all

I'm looking for ideas-ways to model the above mentioned thema and solutions to overcome some obstacles. Here are some observations of mine:

1) Above the neutral axis of a bended beam the stress field is negative.Furthermore the traditional type of K factors estimation in Ansys is insufficient.The reason as i believe is that we haven't relative despacements of the crack nodes along  y(normal) axis.In contradiction we have shear desplacements.So i retrieve Ki nearly zero and Kii some noticable results.(using contact elements)

20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM20)

Submitted by Sakdirat Kaewunruen on

20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM20)

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 2-5 December 2008

The 20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM20) will be held at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Toowoomba, 2-5 December 2008. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.