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Post-Doctoral Positions at the Tsinghua Center for Combustion Energy

Submitted by frankwanger on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 03:18

A Center for Combustion Energy has been established at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

The need for such a center is motivated by the central role that combustion plays in energy sustainability and climate change,

by the emergence of China as a major industrialized nation and her commitment to seek solutions to these global problems,

and by the potential that combustion can contribute to the advance of diverse disciplines of frontier science that involve reacting flows.

ExpRing-----a tool to simulate fragment of brittle materials

Submitted by Duan Zhong on Thu, 09/29/2011 - 01:37

software

This is a free tool to simulate the fragment of brittle materials. You can use it to calculate the fragmentation of some differernt materials with different weakened styles. Also you can use different model to analyze your fragment process. The tool and its introduction are showing the attachment.

Joint Postdoc position at Northeastern and Qatar University - Structural Mechanics and Materials

Submitted by Amin Ajdari on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 16:11

job

Joint postdoctoral fellow position at Northeastern University and Qatar University is available immediately, focused on development and analysis of novel materials and structures for protection of critical structures and components under extreme loading.

Abaqus simulation

Submitted by phanikumar376 on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 10:35

wire drawing process simulation

hi,

i am new to abaqus , i working on a simulation of wire drawing process in Abqus explict, i had modeled the die as a Axisymmetric rigid body and the surface as a analytical rigid surface and the wire as a axisymmetric deformable body and i had given the materail properties of wire and define the contact properties between the die surface and the wire surface, when i started the simuation, there is excessive deformation of the elements in the wire, as the elements pass through the die they are trying to regain back. some please help me how to get rid of this issue.

Virtual Conference on Nanoscale Science and Technology October 26 - 29, 2011 Chengdu, China

Submitted by Xu Zhang on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 10:16

Web page: http://www.oanano.org/vcnst2011

The Virtual Conference on Nanoscale Science and Technology (VCNST) is in fact so much more than just another conference. We have an opportunity together to be explorers as we enter a new era of sharing and dialoguing about science.

List of conferences in contact mechanics and related fields

Submitted by Edwin Vollebregt on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 07:44

Dear all,

At our website we maintain a list of upcoming conferences on contact mechanics and related fields, e.g. solid mechanics, tribology, railway vehicle dynamics, etc.

Which conferences and other events do you attend? Send me a note and I'll add them to the list.

Best wishes,

Edwin Vollebregt

Contact mechanics course January 30-February 1st, 2012

Submitted by Edwin Vollebregt on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 07:33

Dear all,

On Monday January 30th to Wednesday February 1st, 2012, we will organise a
course on using the CONTACT software at Delft University of Technology
in the Netherlands.

The aims of the course are:

Molecular Dynamics from Solid Mechanics Point of View

Submitted by saurabhdixit1987 on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 06:24

I am searching for a tutorial or a book which looks into molecular dynamics method from a Solid Mechanics point of view. All I can find are the books written for biophysicists or chemistry. I can find lot of examples on fluids, biomolecules or polymers but none of them are on simple solids or metals.

Can anyone suggests me a book or a tutorial which can get me ready to write a program to simulate a simple tensile test of a metal wire (FCC Al or some simple crystal).