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TMS- 2015 CALL FOR ABSTRACT (Symposium on Advances in Thin Films for Electronics and Photonics)

Submitted by Amit Pandey on

Meeting

2015 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Symposium

Advances
in Thin Films for Electronics and Photonics

Sponsorship

TMS
Functional Materials Division (formerly EMPMD)

TMS: Thin Films and Interfaces Committee

TMS- 2015 CALL FOR ABSTRACT (Symposium on HIGH TEMPERATURE SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE)

Submitted by Amit Pandey on

HIGH
TEMPERATURE SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE

 

TMS Division: Functional Material Division (FMD
formerly known as EMPMD)

FMD sub-committee: Energy Conversion and Storage

 

Organizers:

Homogenization - If materials in the model are isotropic, is it possible to get truly anisotropic resulting material?

Submitted by Artjoms Salikovs on

Hello,

I read that "In general, even if the materials on the micro-level are isotropic, the effective 

material can show anisotropic behavior. A general anisotropic linear elastic material 

may have twenty one independent material parameters.''

 

If I understand my results correctly then simple structures like ''ball in the unit cell'' result in orthotropic material.

I am a bit puzzled - what would be the simplest structure that would result in anisotropic material behaviour?

The 2nd Sandia Fracture Challenge is here!

Submitted by blboyce on

update, 7/24/2014: The information packet ("SFC2-challenge-v5.ppt") is no longer attached to this post (iMechanica has a file size limit of 1 MB, so we can not attach the 6 MB file). IF YOU WOULD LIKE THE INFO PACKET, PLEASE E-MAIL ME, blboyce [at] sandia.gov and copy Dr. Sharlotte Kramer, slkrame [at] sandia.gov. If you have an older version of the information packet, please also e-mail for the newest (v5) info packet.

We intend to send the shear calibration data to all those whose e-mail address I have by August 1st (sorry for the delay!).

Drawing a 2D sketch on XZ plane in ABAQUS!

Submitted by pateljay26 on

Hello All,

I am trying to make a 2D shell layer on XZ plane. To capture buckling of shell layer with 3-point bending load, I am required to model a 2D sketch on XZ plane. Modeling this way I can use shell elements' bending degrees of freedom. But ABAQUS always pick defauly XY plane to start with. 

Does anyone know how to draw a sketch on XZ plane?

Thanks,

Jay Patel 

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, Volume 4, Issue 3, 2014 is online now!

Submitted by CSTAM_Journal on

Dear everyone,

The third issue in 2014 (Volume 4, Issue 3) of Theoretical and Applied Mehcanic Letters (TAML) is now online.

Welcome to this young journal http://taml.cstam.org.cn for rapid publication of your exciting results.

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