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RA position available in Piezoelectric sensors

Submitted by zhappybird on Sat, 12/28/2013 - 15:58

A RA (MS level) position is available in the Department of Engineering Technology, University of North Texas-Denton in the fields of piezoelectric sensor modeling and experiment. The position will start from Summer, 2014. Candidates should have a Bachelor/Master's degree in engineering mechanics, mechanical engineering or electrical engineering with good academic standing and should have some experiences in the following:

Large deflection of a cantilever

Submitted by mjalilych1 on Sat, 12/28/2013 - 13:40

I am working on large deflection analysis of a cantilever by finite element total lagrangian approach. the results for six element are reasonable but when I increase elemenets to nine solution is diverged. i.e. tangent stiffness matrix becomes singular. can anaone help me on this problem.

thanks in advance.

DCB test - CONTINUUM SHELL ELEMENTS vs SOLID ELEMENTS

Submitted by davidrbmelo on Sat, 12/28/2013 - 13:22

continuum shell elements

Hello,

I modelled a 3-D DCB (Double Cantilever Beam) test specimen to simulate crack propagation (delamination) in composite materials.

To do so, I used surface cohesive properties between plates in Abaqus/Explicit, and applied a displacement at the plates tips.

When I used continuum shell elements the crack propagated as expected and the delamination occurred.

Solid Mechanics mini project

Submitted by M.azam.Jan on Sat, 12/28/2013 - 07:13

opinion

Guys , we've been given a mini project of solid mechanics to make any simple model which shows movement . We're getting short of time so please ....

I'm looking for some ideas of how and what to make .

Solid Mechanics mini project

Submitted by M.azam.Jan on Sat, 12/28/2013 - 07:12

opinion

Carlson - Mathematical Preliminaries and Continuum Mechanics 1991

Submitted by Amit Acharya on Sat, 12/28/2013 - 04:11

education

continuum mechanics

Mathematical Preliminaries

I attach some class notes developed by the late Professor Donald Carlson from which many generations of students at the University of Illinois learnt Continuum Mechanics.

Textbook on linear algebra

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Fri, 12/27/2013 - 23:39

Linear algebra is significant to many aspects of mechanics. For some years I have been using the book by Shilov. But this book may or may not be a good one to recommend to a student, depending on his or her prior experience. On StackExchange Mathematics, there are several excellent threads discussing textbooks of linear algebra. A particular recommendation was made for

critical buckling load of timoshenko beam

Submitted by navid.nik on Fri, 12/27/2013 - 21:18

Timoshenko beam

critical

buckling load

Hi,

I am looking for a closed form analytical solution for the critical bucking load of a timoshenko beam with clamped-free BC.

please help me i'm in rush!!!

Thanks in advance

Navid

Happy new year 2014 - open access repository

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on Thu, 12/26/2013 - 21:58

research

publications 2013; 2014; repository

Dear blog-readers,

As you may know, our research group has, with my leaving the UK, moved in part to Luxembourg, where I am now based. I am of course keeping close ties with Cardiff, where Pierre Kerfriden is now taking care of the group.

It has been a fun and productive year, and I thank you all for contributing to this through numerous discussions emanating from this blog. I wish you all the best for 2014, and hope that it will bring you joy in the work you do.

Best regards from Lausanne where we are enjoying a few days off.