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FREE WEBINAR Food and Drinking Water Contact EU Regulations for Plastic Composites – How to be Prepared
There is a new European regulation (10/2011) addressing plastic materials and components intended for food contact. It is important to understand this regulation to ensure compliance, thus protecting your company when it becomes effective. The new regulation applies to all unreinforced and reinforced plastics, including those that are reinforced with glass fibres. This presentation addresses glass reinforced plastics and the necessary changes that you should be aware of. To see more go to www.reinforcedplastics.com
4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues - Program available
The 4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues, will take place in Hawai'i, USA, from 11-15 December 2011.
The oral and poster programs are available to download from the website http://www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/conference-Program.html
To register, go http://www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/conference-register.html
crack-tip stress field
I am a post graduate student in mechanical engineering,
as a part of curriculum I am doing my thesis work on fracture mechanics. My thesis title
is “ STUDIES ON CRACK-TIP STRESS FIELDS IN HOMOGENEOUS SOLIDS”.I have modeled crack-tip using modified
boundary layer. I have analysed S22 (tangential stress) for T/σ=0, T/σ=0.34
& T/σ=+1.my values are matching with
N.P.O’DOWD and C.F.SHIH for T/σ=0 and T/σ=0.34. But for T/σ=+1 the values of
S22 are coming for less than HRR
values.
simulation of drilling process of CFRP-Ti alloy
Dear friends.
Kindly give some basic inforamtion about simulation of drilling process using abaqus software
Post Doc position at Ecole des Mines de Douai
The Polymers and Composites Technology & Mechanical Engineering
Department of the Ecole des Mines de Douai (France) and Essilor International Company
are currently offering a postdoctoral fellow position aiming at studying the
behavior of lens during cutting.
ICTAM2012 Travel Fellowship for Beijing
A limited number of travel fellowships to Beijing for ICTAM2012 will be available through the U. S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. See the attached for details.
PhD Position available in crystal plasticity modelling of Mg at the Polytechnic University of Madrid
The research group in Advanced Structural Materials and Nanomaterials (Department of Materials Science, Polytechnic Unviersity of Madrid) is looking for a graduate student to carry out his/her PhD within the framework of a collaborative research project among Michigan State University, IMDEA Materials Institute and the Polytechnic University of Madrid entitled "Understanding the Microstructural Evolution and Deformation Behavior of Mg-Mn-RE Alloys". The project is funded by the NSF of US and Spain within the Materials World Network program.
Theoretical investigation on polar dielectric with large electrocaloric effect as cooling devices
Polar dielectric based cooling devices are
modeled as a system with two degrees of freedom and represented by either an
entropy-temperature or electric displacement-electric field plane. A typical
thermodynamic energy cyclic path is proposed for polar dielectric as cooling
devices to experience. With the influence of temperature taken into
consideration, the free energy of a thermal electrical coupling system of polar
dielectrics is formulated, and the variation of temperature and entropy, the
absorption of heat, and the work under different electric fields are calculated
for BaTiO3, Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3, P(VDF-TrFE), and water. And the simulation results
obtained agree well with the recently published experimental data [B. Neese, et