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Survey of Computing Platforms for Engineering Simulation

Submitted by Lee Margetts on
online survey
cloud computing
High Performance Computing

How many organisations are using Cloud Computing? Is the use of High Performance Technical Computing in engineering simulation set to grow in the next 5 years? Will Tablet PCs be powerful enough to run my application? What do my peers think?

These are typical questions asked by the engineering simulation community. Wouldn't it be great if we could take a snapshot of the type of computing platform we're using today and also predict where we will be in the next 5 years? 

Cracks found at reactor at Hunterston B nuclear power station

Submitted by Lee Margetts on
research
nuclear materials
nuclear energy
stochastic FE analysis
Monte Carlo Method
graphite
HPC
parallel computing

Perhaps some of those on this site have seen the news article on the BBC website yesterday about cracks appearing in the reactor at the Hunterston B nuclear power station. As the article states, cracking in the graphite bricks is predicted and the regulators are happy that the reactor is safe to operate.

8th International Congress of Croatian Society of Mechanics – Abstract Submission Deadline Approaching

Submitted by MarkoC on
conference

For the 8th time, Croatian Society of Mechanics is organizing its international congress, which will be this time held in Opatija, Croatia, from 29 September to 2 October 2015. International Congress of the Croatian Society of Mechanics is triennial meeting established for the mutual exchange of scientific and technical information in the domain of Mechanics with a focus not only to the Central Europe but also beyond this region.

Post-doctoral position in Nanomechanics at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

Submitted by Zhiliang Zhang on
job
nanomechanics
molecular dynamics simulation
mechanical properties.

NTNU Nanomechanical Lab at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, offers a full-time 3-year post-doctoral position in nanomechanics. Post-doctoral salary 482500 NOK / year.

Recruitment of a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Dynamic Interface Modelling and Simulation in Material Forming

Submitted by elie.hachem on
job

The main research topic of this position is computational mechanics with a particular interest

to the modeling and the simulation of the interfaces dynamics. The candidate will join a research

team and will participate to several PhDs, engineer, master, and post master students supervision

while developing his/her own research topics. He or she will be in charge of courses dealing with

computational mechanics and numerical simulation of physical phenomena. The candidate will be

Arc length method - Implementation Issues

Submitted by nizanth on

Hi all,

     i am doing a material nonlinear problem.  I have used NR , which is giving good results till near 'limit point' and after that its giving peaks and troughs.  From the literature  I got to know that I should use arc length method (ALM) instead of NR for strain softening problems.  I am using MATLAB

1) Is there any existing code module for Arc length method which can be directly incorporated in my FE code?  In MATLAB central there is a code but its usable only when we have the analytical expressions.

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