Building Design for Homeland Security
The following is a link to a FEMA course
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Mitigating the threat of terrorist attacks
The following are links to the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) documents:
Mitigating the threat of terrorist attacks against high occupancy buildings is a challenging task.
Chapter 1: ASSET VALUE, THREAT/HAZARD, VULNERABILITY, AND RISK
This chapter presents several methodologies for architects and engineers to quantify risk and to identify the most effective mitigation measures to achieve a desired level of protection against terrorist attacks at an acceptable cost.
New graduate mechanics course at MIT: Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials
16.223 Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials
Course Description: Mechanical behavior of heterogeneous materials such as thin-film microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) materials and advanced filamentary composites, with particular emphasis on laminated structural configurations. Anisotropic and crystallographic elasticity formulations. Structure, properties and mechanics of constituents such as films, substrates, active materials, fibers, and matrices including nano- and micro-scale constituents. Effective properties from constituent properties. Classical laminated plate theory for modeling structural behavior including extrinsic and intrinsic strains and stresses such as environmental effects. Introduction to buckling of plates and nonlinear (deformations) plate theory. Other issues in modeling heterogeneous materials such as fracture/failure of laminated structures.
conferences/seminars related to energetic composite materials
The conferences/seminars I attended that relate to the behaviour of energetic composite materials.
Multi-Scale Digital Image Correlation and Tracking with MATLAB
C. Eberl, D. S. Gianola, R. J. Thompson (in alphabetic order)
With this contribution we would like to point to a free MATLAB tool which uses digital image correlation and tracking techniques to measure strain from a series of digital images. The code can be found on the ‘MATLAB central file exchange’ as well as the documentation, example images and some slides. We use the code on a daily basis for micro- and nanoscale measurements and present it here to be used and further developed by the community. Since it was posted at the end of september the code is now ranked place one or two in google and has been downloaded about 1000 times.
The 8th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-8), Heidelberg, Germany (Sep-Oct, 2007)
The 8th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-8) will be held in Heidelberg, Germany, from 30th September to 5th October, 2007.
The Symposium will focus on all technical aspects of fusion nuclear technology (FNT) and other related disciplines...
Topics:
- First Wall Technology and High Heat Flux Components
- Blanket Technology
- Fuel Cycle and Tritium Processing
- Material Engineering for FNT
- Vacuum Vessel
- Nuclear System Design and Reactor Studies
- Safety Issues and Waste Management
- Models and Experiments for FNT
- Repair and Maintenance
- Burning Plasma Control and Operation
- Inertial Confinement Fusion Studies and Technologies
- FNT Contributions to other Fields of Science and Technology
The 13th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials, Nice, France (Dec, 2007)
ICFRM is the major international conference for exchanging and archiving knowledge on the development of materials for both near and long-term fusion energy systems. It assembles the world community to present their results on research, development, and deployment of materials for fusion devices. The scope of the conference ranges from fundamental materials science to in-service materials performance, and is delivered in a mix of invited and contributed oral and poster presentations.
Post-doctoral position in Computational Stochastic Mechanics, Nantes, France
Post-doctoral position - Stochastic computational techniques to deal with uncertainties on the geometry in structural analysis
The post-doctoral student will join the pole "Structures and Couplings" of the Research Institute en Civil Engineering and Mechanics (GeM), Nantes, France (Nantes University, Ecole Centrale Nantes, CNRS UMR 6183)
We have recently been awarded a Research Project by the French National Research Agency. This project addresses theorical and numerical developments in the field of stochastic computational mechanics. The main goal of this project is to develop a robust computational technique to deal with uncertainties on the geometry in structural analysis. The proposed methodology lies on the extension of the Extended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) into the stochastic framework and the development of efficient computational techniques for solving stochastic systems.