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MD simulation VS. Continuum mechanical model Of protein

Submitted by kongdong on

Hi, all

Molecular dynamics (or MC) is a powerful tool in the protein research. There're lots of scientific works in this field, which deepen our understanding gradually. My question follows, "how about the continuum mechaics in protein research".

Any discussions and advices are appreciated.

 

Kong    5th Sep 2007



 

The US-China NSF Workshop and Summer Institute of Bio- and Nano-Mechanics and Applications (UCWSI2007)

Submitted by Ying Li on

The US-China NSF Workshop and Summer Institute of

Bio- and Nano-Mechanics and Applications (UCWSI2007)

August 31 -- September 4, 2007

Beijing, China

Brittle fracture down to femto-Joules — and below

Submitted by Markus J. Buehler on

I found an interesting paper on the arXiv website that may interest some mechanicians.  Markus

Title:  Brittle fracture down to femto-Joules — and below

Authors: J. Astrom, P.C.F. Di Stefano, F. Probst, L. Stodolsky, J. Timonen 

How the following cubic spline function is derived?

Submitted by V.Gnanaraj on

In most of the research papers on meshless methods the following cubic spline function is used as weighting function.

 w(y) = 0  if y < -2,

w(y) =1/6(y+2)^3  ,    if -2 < y < -1 

w(y) =  2/3 – y^2(1 + y/2) ,  if   -1 < y < 0

w(y)=   2/3 -y^2(1 - y/2) , if   0 < y < 1

w(y) = -1/6 (y – 2 )^3  ,   if    1 < y < 2

w(y) = 0 if y >2