We invite you to participate in the upcoming Workshop on Materials Characterization for Nanoscale Reliability, to take place 14-16 August, 2007 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. Details are posted at http://www.boulder.nist.gov/div853/Nanoscale_Reliability_workshop/index….
Given below is a sequence that might properly address the question of what to teach in the first (and the only) UG couse on strength of materials or solid mechanics.
0. Note: It's a mistake to believe that the contents for such a course can be covered in a linear fashion. Apply the spiral theory of knowledge and revisit certain concepts again and again: e.g., the concepts of stress, strain, fields, BV problems, theoretical structure, etc.
1. Introduction:
I wish that this thought had come to me earlier, so that I could have posted it on April First. No, I'm unaware of such a program. Instead, Harvard faculty have just emerged from a multi-year review of curriculum, and reaffirmed the commitment to liberal education, after voting out a president not too long ago.
Hi,
I am actually working of field data transfer techniques when remeshing is needed during analysis of metal forming process.
some
researchers use a so called Linear interpolation technique using the
volume coordinates as shape functions to transfer a field from a mesh
to an other.
Is there any one who used this technique in such a problem?
If there is any, could he tell me which are the advantages of the technique and its disadvantage?
Is there any tests to validate the method?
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The National Science Foundation’s Highest Honor
Mathematical Modelling & Computational Methods in Solid Mechanics
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University of Glasgow
I once came across a novel which contains the following (verbatim) :
Laplace had once prepared a paper for the Academie, claiming that it would be possible to predict the outcome of a game of dice if one had precise knowledge of every factor, such as the weight of the die, the exact way in which the hand moved, the strength of that hand, and the force of each throw.
The Koiter-Sanders-Budiansky bending strain measure and a nonlinear generalization
We know from strength of materials that non-uniform stretching of fibers along the cross section of a beam produces bending moments. But does this situation necessarily correspond to a 'bending' deformation? For that matter, what do we exactly mean kinematically when we talk about a bending deformation?
