Modelling and Simulation of Superalloys 2017
Hands-on tutorials and an International Workshop on Modelling and Simulations of Superalloys will take place
March 27th-31st at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Blog posts
Modeling and Nanofabrication of 1D and 2D Materials: Special Issue in Elsevier New Journal Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects (NANOSO)
Dear All,
Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects is a new Elsevier journal launched in 2015. The journal is devoted to all aspects of the synthesis and the properties of this new flourishing domain.
Writing VTK output files in C++
If you're interested in visualizing your data with Visit or Paraview, it's convenient to write out VTK files. If you are a C++ person you will find my post at http://www.parresianz.com/c++/xml/vtk/vtk-output/ of interest.
-- Biswajit
Call for Abstracts: ASME2017@Tampa: [Topic 11-11] Materials for Biomedical Applications
Topic 11-11, ASME IMECE 2017, Tampa, Florida
This symposium will provide a forum that highlights exciting scientific developments in the design, processing, characterization, and/or modeling of materials to be used in medical devices, or materials to interact with biological systems. The symposium will bring together scholars and engineers working at the interface between the disciplines of materials science, medicine, chemistry, and biology. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Call for Abstracts: ASME2017@Tampa: [Topic 11-17] Modeling, Simulation, and Design of Multifunctional Materials
Topic 11-17, ASME IMECE 2017, Tampa, Florida
This symposium will provide a forum that highlights exciting scientific developments in the modeling, simulation, and design of multifunctional materials, hybrid materials, and engineering material systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
1. Novel concepts of multifunctional materials, hybrid materials, and engineering material systems.
Postdoc position in nanoscale fluid-structure interaction at QMUL London (ERC project FLEXNANOFLOW)
A postdoctoral research position in computational soft matter will soon open in the Division of Engineering Science, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Queen Mary is part of the Russell group of elite, research-intensive UK universities, and provides an attractive campus environment within the heart of London.
ABAQUS: Access stress of integration point of elements during calculation
Hi all,
I'm using ABAQUS and UMAT for structural simulation. I used quadratic element (CPS4) with 4 integration points (IP).
During the calculation (which calling my UMAT), at each time step, for each element, I need to calculate the average stress of these IPs and produce a state variable for these IPs from this average stress. Then, I would need to update this state variable back to these IPs in that element. But as far as I know, the ABAQUS call UMAT for every IP and calculate everything within this current IP.
Nature paper about mechanical metamaterials violating Betti's theorem
Maybe because I am proud of Betti's theorem being italian, I am curious about this big emphasys on systems violating it. They may "open avenues for energy absorption, conversion and harvesting, soft robotics, prosthetics and optomechanics".... ? I'd be curious to hear some comments. Anyway, the last author Andrea Alu is anyway italian like Betti.
JSON or XML for your input files?
Either, depending on your taste and use-case. I prefer XML for aesthetic reasons, but that format can get verbose. Check out my new post on how to read JSON files in your C++ code at http://www.parresianz.com/c++/json/json-input/.
-- Biswajit