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Audio Conferencing

Submitted by santosheagle on

Audio Conferencing the Productive Era of Business Meetings

The concept of Audio Conferencing using a phone line is not new.
Audio conferencing and its equipment have been around for many decades
at this point. The techniques are tried and true and it is the easiest
method of conferencing to use. Audio
conference is the use of conference calls for regular meetings and a

Magics 12 is released!

Submitted by MagicsTeam on

Magics RP software optimizes all steps in your rapid prototyping and manufacturing process, from data import to platform preparation. By offering  STL fixing, automated support generation, Boolean operations and many other powerful tools, it helps to build high quality parts in the shortest possible lead time.

Now Magics takes another step in further increasing its added value for the RP&M professional. Magics 12 offers several new features and automation combined with continuously improved quality, e.g.:

Stress and Deformation: A handbook on tensors in geology by Gerard Oertel

Submitted by AlisonForsyth on

Despite the title, the book covers very little specifically on geology.  It works through stress, strain, and other tensor quantities, but assumes you know little about the math.  Fully worked problems make up the bulk of the book following a few introcutory chapters.  I've found it a nice review of the math, but haven't fully explored the solution sections.  I got the book from Cabot Science Library here at Harvard. I wouldn't recommend buying it on amazon it's not worth the $72, but it is a nice addition to Timoshenko's theory of elasticity.

Rowland Junior Fellowship at Harvard University (30 Nov Deadline)

Submitted by Managers on

I am writing to draw your attention to our annual solicitation for applications to Rowland Junior Fellows Program, which may be of interest to your graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

We have currently eight Rowland Junior Fellows at the Institute. As a look at our website will tell you (http://rowland.harvard.edu), they work on a broad range of topics, from condensed matter physics to plant physiology.

Mechanics of Materials by R.C. Hibbeler

Submitted by bfinio on
  • Amazon.com reviews 
  • Content (by chapter):
    • Stress
    • Strain
    • Mechanical Properties of Materials
    • Axial Load
    • Torsion
    • Bending
    • Transverse Shear
    • Combined  Loadings
    • Stress Transformation
    • Strain Transformation
    • Design of Beams and Shafts
    • Deflections of Beams and Shafts
    • Buckling of Columns
    • Energy Methods

Openings for New Ph.D. Students on Composite Materials and Failure Mechanics at Vanderbilt University, USA

Submitted by L. Roy Xu on

New students may start from January 2008 if the graduate students have previous research experience in solid mechanics (e.g., nano/micro-mechanics, computational mechanics) or material engineering (MD simulation, mechanical behaviors). Students will have the opportunities to conduct balanced experimental and computational work on the durabilty and impact failure of marine composite materials; failure and material designs of nanocomposite materials; or rehabilitation of infrastructure materials using composites and other materials.  An MS degree is required.

When is the right time for a Post Doc. to start applying for a lecturership position?

Submitted by Amir Siddiq on

I normally come across many advertisements about lecturership positions in different universities all around the world. And I always wonder when is the right time for a post doc. to apply for it? As, I am never sure that my experience will be enough for the position.

What are the necessary ingredients of a post doc.'s CV, that should help him getting such position?

Implementing previous step output as input in the following step using Abaqus

Submitted by moonmoon on

Dear Abaqus Users,

Help is needed on how we can get the output displacement of some

certain nodes and implement them in a formula to become forces (from

each node results); and add this forces into their corresponding nodes

in the following new step, for multiple steps.

Thank you for your helping answers of any approaches and they are

really appreciated .

Thanks