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Spatial Control in the Heterogeneous Nucleation of Water

Submitted by Kripa Varanasi on

The attached paper was recently published
in Applied Physics Letters. We show for the first time that Nucleation and
Condensation of Water can be spatially controlled. Such control of nucleation
phenomena and the fundamental findings discussed in the paper have implications
for the Energy and Water industry. The paper can be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?APL/95/094101/1

Lightweight structures

Submitted by R. Gabbrielli on

For those of you interested in the geometry of light frameworks and models for extremely porous materials, here are a couple of links. The first one contains two 3D objects. You need Java to view them.

http://people.bath.ac.uk/rg247/swansea/javaview/gyroid_146_007.html

http://people.bath.ac.uk/rg247/swansea/gyroid_146_007_n.png

Can somebody suggest a general-purpose object oriented design of the finite element?

Submitted by Wenbin Yu on

I am looking into object oriented programing of the finite element method. I don't know whether somebody can provide a general-purpose oop design of a general finite element program, say a linear static analysis of a 3D solid. Or somebody who are experienced in this field point out some good references for this purpose. It will be better if the oop design is language free, i.e. not directly related with implementation in a specific language such as c++. Thanks in advance.

Post-doctoral fellow position in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics @ Northwestern

Submitted by jandrade on

We are currently seeking candidates for a Post-doctoral Fellow position in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Northwestern University. The successful candidate is expected to possess a Ph.D. in engineering or science and must have experience in the area of computational mechanics, broadly involving computational inelasticity, finite elements and continuum mechanics. Knowledge of discrete mechanics is desirable but not essential.

composite modelling in abaqus

Submitted by cgururaj on

I have to analyse the jute epoxy composite laminate in abaqus 6.9. to determine interlaminar toughness of the frp plate. i am not able to model the composite lay up with the correct orientation of the fibre. so any body have the step by step procedure for modelling the composite lay up in abaqus please give it to me.

defining interaction between a lot of surfaces in abaqus.

Submitted by rezarozi61 on

 Dear all:

During simulation in ABAQUS , I encountered a severe problem . I used ABAQUS Explicit but I could not define the interactions between for example 200 particles.I mean I used surface-to surface contact (explicit),so I had to define many many interactions between every particle with the others ,which is waste of time.It seems that I have to use  General contact(explicit) ,but by using general contact (explicit),an error occured which says :"CONTACT currently does not support the use of 2D surfaces".

I appreciate any ones help.

My Ph.D. Defence

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

I am pleased to inform you that I will be defending my Ph.D. thesis, formally in mechanical engineering, at COEP, University of Pune, India, on the next Sunday (i.e. 20th September, 2009).

The title of my thesis is: "A New Approach to Computer Modeling and Analysis of Certain Fundamental Field Problems from Engineering Sciences." 

How to build a contact model involved the plastic defoemation?

Submitted by Mike lee on

Hello, everyone.

Recently, I am trying to build a plastic contact model to describe teh relationship between the plastic deformation and the contact force, which is a crucial point in my work that dealing with the grasp force in robotics. So, anybody has some ideas about this? Actually, I am attempting to find a analytic model.