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Experiments with porous materials

Submitted by D.Rittel on

The additive manufacturing technology, among its many advantages, allows us to manufacture solids with controlled enclosed porosity. To the best of my knowledge, this was not doable with conventional machining technologies, but now this is done. In the attached document, the interested reader will find experimental results (both static and dynamic) describing the influence of the porosity on the specimen's performance. We show that while the volume fraction is indeed an important parameter, aas expected, the spatial arrangement of the voids is also of prime importance.

Running user subroutines in Fortran 90 with ABAQUS

Submitted by Hanif Hoseini on

Hi,

I need to run a UEL in Fortran90 with ABAQUS 6.13, however, I keep getting error. 

I can run subroutines in FORTRAN77, but it's not the case for Fortran90.

My machine is Windows7/64 and I have Intle Composer XE 2011 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Any help on that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Hanif

IMECE 2015 Symposium on “Mechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)”

Submitted by Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub on

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract to the symposium on

Mechanics of Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking)

as part of Track 12 of IMECE 2015, Houston, Texas, November 13-19, 2015. See attached for more details.

The abstract submission deadline is March 2nd, 2015 (final deadline, no extension).

Organizers:

Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub, Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE

K. Ravi-Chandar, University of Texas-Austin

Chad M. Landis, University of Texas-Austin

Ali Ghahremaninizhad, University of Miami

PhD Positions – Computational Mechanics

Submitted by Hamed Hatami on

PhD Positions in the area of computational mechanics are available at the computational biomechanical laboratory in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University.

The candidates are required to have a MSc. degree in Mechanical Engineering or in a closely related field.

Only Candidates with strong background in numerical simulations, finite element analysis, and computational solid mechanics are encouraged to apply.

Excellent programming skills and experience with high performance computing are strongly desirable

On the modeling of asymmetric yield functions

Submitted by Stefan C. Soare on

In the context of metal plasticity, the yield function of a metal polycrystal is its most complex macro-characteristic. Letting aside the questions of kinematic or distortional hardening, the basic problem is geometric in nature: to design a family of convex surfaces capable of reproducing a wide range of experimental, or theoretically predicted data. While many satisfactory solutions have been proposed for the modeling of symmetric (with respect to the origin of the stress space) yield functions, the more general case of asymmetric functions has not witnessed comparable progress.