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Minisymposium on Computational Cell Mechanobiology at WCCM 2016, Seoul, Korea

Submitted by shaofanli on

Dear Colleagues,

We are cordially inviting you to submit an one-page abstract to the Mini-Symposium

Computational Cell Mechanobiology

which is organised within the framework of the 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics WCCM XII to be held in Seoul, Korea, 24 - 29 July 2016  (see http://wccm2016.org/ ). The deadline for the one-page abstract is December 31, 2015.

Abaqus UEL error

Submitted by Mehul_Lukhi on

***WARNING: USER SUBROUTINE UEL WILL BE USED WITH THE STAVEV ARRAY DIMENSIONED
             TO ONE SINCE THE VARIABLE PARAMETER HAS NOT BEEN SPECIFIED.
             CONSEQUENTLY, DEFINING MORE THAN ONE STATEV ENTRY IN SUBROUTINE
             UEL WILL CAUSE CODE EXECUTION ERRORS.

Can somebody help me out with this error?

Predictive Theoretical and Computational Approaches for Additive Manufacturing

Submitted by shaofanli on

On October 7-9, 2015, the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) held a Workshop on Predictive Theoretical and Computational Approaches for Additive Manufacturing in Washington, DC.  The three-day workshop featured 24 presentations from speakers in academia, industry, and government labs.

Multiple faculty openings in Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah

Submitted by mczabaj on

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah (http://www.mech.utah.edu/) invites applications
for five tenure track positions at the assistant or associate rank with a Fall Semester 2016 starting date. Candidates with
exceptional background and experience may be considered at a higher rank. Candidates with interest and expertise in the
areas of i) solid mechanics -- 2 positions, ii) design and/or manufacturing, iii) thermal sciences, fluid mechanics, or

HEX meshes with elastic/plastic property in ABAQUS contact analysis

Submitted by rmbwang on

Dear all,

Recently I have been running a simulation in ABAQUS, which is the compression of two hemispheres. The two hemispheres are identical, and I think the simulation results of the contact sufaces of the two hemispheres should be identical too. However, I found when I apply only elastic material property, the result is alright, when I change the material property to elastic-plastic (bi-linear), the result is very wierd (the contact sufaces are not symmetric). All of the model is with HEX mesh, when TET mesh is applied there is no such issues.