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Inglis (1913) vs. Griffith (1921)

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

I have updated my notes on the Griffith paper.  I added more description on the experimental determination of surface tension of solids.  Griiffith himself determined the surface tension of glass by an experimental setup.  Udin et al (1949) described a setup based on the same principle.  This setup is now known as the zero creep experiment.

Grants for 3rd International Workshop on Physics Based Material Models and Experimental Observations Cesme/Turkey 2-4 June

Submitted by Kalle Nilsson on

In 2012 and 2013 we organized very successful Workshops on
"Physics-based material models and experimental observations" funded
by the European Union's Enlargement programme. We cordially invite you to
submit an abstract to the 3rd International Workshop on Physics Based
Material Models and Experimental Observations
to be held on 2-4 June
2014 in Cesme-Izmir/Turkey.

Extremely deformable structures. CISM 2014 Advanced School: Udine, Italy, June 2 - 6 2014 .

Submitted by Davide Bigoni on

Lecturers:

Basile Audoly - Université Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS, Paris, France

Katia Bertoldi - University of Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Davide Bigoni - Università di Trento, Italy

Alain Goriely - University of Oxford, UK

Geotechnical Engineering position at the Assistant Professor level

Submitted by juan gomez on

The Civil Engineering Department at Universidad EAFIT in Medellín, Colombia is seeking applicants for a tenure track position in the field of Geotechnical Engineering. Interested candidates must have a PhD degree in the field.  The selected candidate is expected to conduct research in the area of Geotechnical Engineering, and create and promote graduate courses.



Using Substructure for contact modelling in Abaqus

Submitted by Marko_carl on

I have a
problem to use substructure for contact anaylsis of two gears. I have
already read the example in abaqus Example problem manual for help.
Well, to explain my problem in detail, I have two nastron files of two
gears and later using FORTRAN I am able to write the programm to
generate the *.inp files. What I tried to do is

1. Substrcture generation of two gears in seperate files. Now I have two
sets of substructures available for individual gears. While generating
the substruture, I have retained the DOF for the nodes which are on the