The ASME 2015 Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference (McMat2015) will be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, June 29-July 1, 2015. We are organizing a symposium at this conference - Symposium 17: Mechanics of Materials in Extreme Environments.
A 1-year post-doctoral position is available at École Polytechnique to work on the experimental characterization and the multiphysics modeling of carbon nanotube based sensors.
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The viewpoint that cavitation in rubber — that is, the sudden growth of inherent defects in rubber into large enclosed cavities in response to external stimuli — is a purely elastic phenomenon has long been known to be fundamentally incomplete. Essentially, this is because the local stretches around the defects at which cavitation initiates far exceed the elastic limit of the rubber, which therefore ought to inelastically deform by fracturing to accommodate their growth.
Dear Colleague,
I would like to inform you that the annual report on the scientific and educational activities carried out by the research unit MUSAM on Multi-scale Analysis of Materials at IMT Lucca during 2014 can be downloaded from the following link:
http://musam.imtlucca.it/Report_2014.pdf
Yours sincerely,
Marco Paggi
Webinar 1 - Design of high efficiency Turbocharger/e-charger compressors by 3D Inverse design method
In this one hour free webinar we will use two specific examples to show how and why the 3D inverse design method can result in breakthrough designs that improve the turbocharger efficiency and yet meet the requirements for good stress and vibration and wide operating range. The two cases will be:
I worked with Direct Dynamic Analysis Method (DDAM) of the US Navy with Abaqus in 2007, but when I revisit it again in 6.14 version I didn't find it and it is not in the documentation also. Is it removed from Abaqus? and why? In ship building industry, they use it heavily till now.
Please, find the attached file about the method from a Simulia document in 2007
A short course on the “Mechanics of Liquid and Solid Foams” will be offered at CISM, the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences in Udine, Italy, 13-17 July 2015 (see brochure attached).
The course will focus on relationships between the cellular microstructure and nonlinear mechanical behavior of liquid and solid foams, and foam-like biological and synthetic materials. Theoretical models, experimental methods, and numerical simulations will be presented. The course is aimed at PhD students, postdocs, and researchers in academia and industry.
Abstract: There has been relatively little study on time-dependent mechanical properties of nanowires, in spite of their importance for the design, fabrication and operation of nanoscale devices.
Stress corrosion cracks can be a serious problem in many engineering industries, and especially so for critical parts. While an ultrasonic transducer can be used for the non-destructive evaluation of cracks with simple shapes, complex branching cracks, such as stress corrosion cracks, require ultrasonic arrays that consist of multiple transducers and are able to inspect at multiple angles.
