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Does anyone know where I can find the stress field of a perforated strip?
I am trying to get the shrinkage rate of a void in a finite grain which is simplified as a rectangular region within a circular hole. So I need to find out the stress field to get the chemical potentials.
Online meeting scheduling
Scheduling a meeting with more than 3 participants can be a headache. The organizer often needs to email or call the group, and wait for feedbacks. Quite often both the organizer and the participants need to go through such a process several rounds to finalize the schedule.
GEM4 Summer School on Cell & Molecular Mechanics in Biomedicine 2007, Singapore - 25 June to 6 July 2007
Dear friends and colleagues,
We will be organizing a GEM4 Summer School on Cell & Molecular Mechanics in Biomedicine (with a focus on Cancer) at the National University of Singapore from 25 June to 6 July 2007. It will also be held in conjunction with the GEM4 Conference on Cancer to be held from 1 to 6 July 2007.
Granular mechanics
Granular materials deserve being investigated as this has been the case with liquids, gases and elastic materials.
Titanium and nickel Functionally graded materials
Hi,
i would be working of development of titanium and nickel functionally graded materials by laser deposition. I would appreciate any suggestions and know-how about this specific topic.
Kamran.
What are the basic difficulties of using the collocation techniques for solving PDE’s?
Hello, Can anybody inform me what are the basic difficulties of using point collocation (strong form) kind of method for solving pde's when compared with solving its weak statement? I have listed a few, known to me,
The effect of coating in increasing the critical size of islands on a compliant substrate
by Juil Yoon, Zhen Zhang, Nanshu Lu, Zhigang Suo
As well pointed out by Journal Club of March 2007, the flexible electronics is an emerging technology.
Italian stress analysis AIAS conference in Ischia --- call for papers Sept.
dear Imechanica users,
a wonderful location for our annual italian conference in stress analysis -- see www.aias2007.it. It is organized by our collegues in Università di Napoli, Prof. Renato Esposito. Attached the call for papers in PDF, and more info are below.
Floating ships of ice and increasing the toughness of glass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
I was surprised several years ago when delving into the literature to not find any references about addition of nanoparticles to ice, to study their impact on the mechanics of ice. In short, to make nanocomposites where the matrix is ice. So, with 2 high school students from IMSA, the Illinois Math and Science Academy, we set about (with their limited time for a bit of research) to try adding some nanoparticles to water and to freeze it. The students simply used their home freezers to do this, and their mechanics measurements were with a hammer and chisel...