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Submitted by Martin Pratt on

Rather than scratching heads when faced with a seemingly impossible contradiction in a job, engineers could do worse than apply the Triz theory.

There has been quite a buzz around Triz, the Russian theory of problem solving, for some time. Since it was fully refined in the mid-1980s its use has been slowly spreading as word gets round, much like the increasing popularity of a political movement.

Looking for a PhD position

Submitted by Sina Mirzayie Sefat on

I am graduated with MS degree of Offshore Engineering in Amirkabir University of technology, Tehran, Iran.

My Ms Thesis was “Interaction between water waves and floating moored spar platforms”. 

I defended my thesis at the end of October 2007, and I am looking for a PhD Course Scholarship now.

My field was naval architect in Bsc, and my thesis was about preparing ship hydrodynamic resistance and propulsion.

Question: Beam Element in ANSYS Theory Reference

Submitted by L2020 on

Hi
I have read some descriptions about beam element in chapter 14 of Element Library of ANSYS Theory Reference(ANSYS Help),it is mentioned that the stiffness matrix of a beam element in element coordinates is a 12x12 matrix that its elements are calculated in the same way as przemieniecki's book(Przemieniecki, J. S., Theory of Matrix Structural Analysis, McGraw-Hill, New York (1968))
Unfortunately I didn't find this book in the library,if any body has read this book,if it is possible guide me how przemieniecki have reached to such stiffness matrix?

Subject Guides from the IMechE

Submitted by Martin Pratt on

In order to try and get some of the vast store of engineering information we're sitting on out to a wider audience we've created a number of occasional subject guides for engineers and students. The aim is to highlight sources of information available from our Library and the Institution itself.

You can see an example of one of these (for the aerospace industry) here, from which you can browse to a whole host of others.

News feeds from the IMechE

Submitted by Martin Pratt on

I run part of the website here at the IMechE in the UK. Since we have many international visitors to our technical events I thought I'd point out that we've finally brought out a whole raft of RSS goodness with the launch of a range of industry specific feeds from our calender of events. We intend to launch more feeds for other content areas soon.

Relationship between Hardness and Elastic modulus?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

What is the relationship between hardness and elastic modulus? The higher hardness, the higher elastic modulus?  My understanding is that hardness is a local mechanical property, and 
elastic modulus is an averaged global mechanical property.  Am I right about this?