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2015 EMI International Conference

Submitted by Amar A. Chaker on

The Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) will organize the first international conference in Hong Kong. The 2015 EMI International Conference of ASCE will be held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in its beautiful downtown Kowloon campus on January 7-9, 2015 and will be chaired by Prof. K.T. Chau.
 

Ph.D. position in the framework of FP7-Marie Curie-ITN Endure

Submitted by V. Carvelli on

Institution:  POLITECNICO di MILANO – Italy

Ph.D. Supervisor:  Prof. Valter Carvelli

Funding Availability: 
FP7-Marie Curie-ITN Endure

Deadline application: Aprili 29th, 2014

One
Ph.D. position
(Early-Stage Researcher) of 36 months, in the framework of EU Marie
Curie FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN Endure (see http://www.endure-itn.eu)

Call for Proposals: Recent Trends in Mechanics

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

The US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM) publishes periodic Reports on Recent Trends in Mechanics. An archive of recent reports can be found at the Committee’s website. The USNCTAM has reorganized the process for generating such reports; a SubCommittee (K. Ravi‐Chandar, Chair (ravi [at] utexas.edu), G.

Evading the strength-ductility trade-off dilemma in steel through gradient hierarchical nanotwins

Submitted by Yujie Wei on

It is a long-standing goal in metallurgy to enhance the strength of materials without sacrificing ductility. In a recent article in Nature Communications, we reported an effective way to evade the strength-ductility trade-off dilemma in twin-induced plasticity steel.

The Renaissance of Continuum Mechanics

Submitted by Weiqiu Chen on

Dear friends of IMechanica:

 

Primary data mining through Web of Science
reveals that the number of papers containing “continuum mechanics ” increases
rapidly these years. This is a very exciting fact to our mechanicians. Thus, I
wrote a short paper titled “The Renaissance of Continuum Mechanics”, which was just
published online via:

 

http://www.zju.edu.cn/jzus/iparticle.php?doi=10.1631/jzus.A1400079 (The full paper can be downloaded.)

Abaqus Max Principal vs Max Principal (Abs) values

Submitted by Gayan Aravinda on

Hi every one,

                   Does Any one know the difference between Max. Principal values and Max.Principal(Abs) values in Abaqus ? I searched from there manual..but they have not mentioned in there manual too..could you please let me know the difference between those two parameters? Thank you very much.