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Acta Mechanica Sinica, Vol.30, Issue 3, 2014 is online now!

Submitted by CSTAM_Journal on

Dear everyone!

The third issue in 2014 (Volume 30, Issue 3) of Acta Mechanica Sinica (AMS) is now online.

Welcome to this SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.

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Phase-field modeling and simulation of fracture in brittle materials with strongly anisotropic surface energy

Submitted by Bin_Li on

Crack propagation in brittle materials with anisotropic surface energy is important in applications involving
single crystals, extruded polymers, or geological and organic materials. Furthermore, when this anisotropy
is strong, the phenomenology of crack propagation becomes very rich, with forbidden crack propagation
directions or complex sawtooth crack patterns. This problem interrogates fundamental issues in fracture
mechanics, including the principles behind the selection of crack direction. Here, we propose a variational

Problem in steel connection model using abaqus

Submitted by Mutaz A. Al Hijaj on

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to model an extended shear tab connection using ABAQUS 6.13-2, I've tried to model 4 connections and I compared the results I've got with the experimental work, and I noticed that the FEA is way stiffer that the experimental work, I have only one warning and it says "If significant clearance/overclosure exists between surface pair (assembly__pickedsurf579,assembly__pickedsurf580) and the master surface does not have rotational degrees of freedom, adjustment is recommended for correct enforcement of the tie constraint"

Workshop on Microfluidics : Nanofluidics : Multiscale CFD, Registration deadline extended

Submitted by smitra on

Please join us for a national workshop on Microfluidics and Nanofluidics near Delhi, India during 14-16 July 2014. We are happy to have some higly accomplished academician in multiscale CFD domain. Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Bhatnagar Awardee 2013 will be principal instructor and speaker in the event.

http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/fac-profiles/showprofile.php?empcode=bTmVW

Linking between MKL, LAPACK and ABAQUS

Submitted by ashkan khalili on

Hi everybody,

I'm an ABAQUS UEL user. I have Intel Parallel Studio 2013 installed on my computer with Visual Studio 2013 and ABAQUS 6-12.3

I'm almost a begginer in this area. I realized that Intel Composer XE 2013 (which has been intalled on my machine) contains MKL which has BLAS and LAPACK libraries in it.

I tried to use some of their functions (let's say eigenvalue solver and SVD solver). When I'm
trying to run it (abaqus job=test user=test1 int) I'm getting this error
message:

Compression buckling of polymeric beam/column

Submitted by GiacomoMoretti on

Hello,



I have a problem with a stacked colum of elastomeric membranes (natural rubber or silicone).



I am looking for a compression buckling criterion that applies for hyperelastic materials in presence of large deformations (up to 400%).



I've read about Haringx formula, that should apply for these materials, but I suspect that it is valid for small strains only.



My question is:



- is there a suitable buckling criterion for this case?



VAL2015 conference on Variable Amplitude Loading - Abstract submission system opened

Submitted by pragtic on

Dear iMechanician

We are preparing everything necessary to host the 3rd International Conference on Material and Component Performance under Variable Amplitude Loading (VAL 2015) in Prague, Czech Republic in March 23-26, 2015. From now on, you can register your abstracts in the online
submission system
. The system will stay open till July 7, 2014, so do not forget to insert your abstract in time.

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