Science, as some see it...
I came across some content I used to have on my webpage a long time ago.
Blog posts
Delamination of stiff islands on stretchable substrates
I attach slides for an ASME talk, which is based on a recent paper.
Electromechanical instability of large deformation in dielectric elastomers
I attach the slides of a presentation at the ASME meeting. The talk was based on several recent papers on soft active materials (SAMs). To give an uncluttered picture of the pull-in instability, I have removed all discussion on the Maxwell stress. As you can see, the problem can be studied without ever mentioning this troublesome notion.
Rodney Hill Prize
I noticed that the Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics has been founded and would like to have his personal records in detail, hopefully with his portrait(photo).
ABAQUS infinte elements
Dear Colleague,
I'm Bosnian student and i want to use in
the ABAQUS infinite elements for the 3D model. Model is very simple, 3D box
and load acting in the middle of the model. Around loading surface I'm
using C3D8 elements and under i would like to use CIN3D8 elements. I
used to model box and
infinity as two separate parts and i tied this together in assembly mode. In
input file i changed just elements type of infinity part in to the CIN3D8
elements. But when i run the analysis i always get the error like:
Wing Kam Liu won the 2007 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
At the 2007 ASME Congress, in Seattle, Professor Wing Kam Liu won the 2007 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award. Wing Kam was a past chair of the Applied Mechanics Division, and has made seminal contributions in the field of computational mechanics.
The leaky pipeline
A new report has been published on the "leaky pipeline" question:
A persistent problem. Traditional gender roles hold back female scientists
Simpleware and COMSOL Announce Partnership
Simpleware Ltd. and COMSOL Inc. announced at the COMSOL Users Conference 2007 in Grenoble a partnership agreement to provide an export interface from Simpleware's world-leading 3D image-based meshing software +ScanFE™ to COMSOL Multiphysics® 3.4, the industry's foremost multiphysics simulation environment. The +ScanFE interface enables COMSOL users to directly import high-quality meshes generated from MRI, CT, and MicroCT scan data into COMSOL Multiphysics 3.4 for modelling and simulation without requiring re-meshing or pre-processing.
cracking analyses in a bended sandwich beam
I'm studying cracking analyses in a three point loaded specimen of a composed beam.I'm using ANSYS and i want to create codes for estimation of J integral and energy release rate in the vicinity of crack tip.After that i'll calculate the stresses and strains fields,and then i can compare the equivalent fields i retrived using CTOD and K(I,II,III) factors (according to ANSYS algorithm).
My problem is that I'd like to find a relationship between the above mentioned quantities(J,G) with K(I,II,III)factors.