Skip to main content

Blog posts

Full time PhD scholarship at RMIT University, Australia

Submitted by Jie Yang on
job

PhD scholarship (A$26,000 per year) is available at RMIT University, Australia. The
successful applicant will join our research team to work in one of the
following areas: (1) micro-/nano-mechanics; (2) mechanics of composite/nanocomposite structures; and (3) nonlinear structural dynamics and stability.

The perspective applicants
should

(a) hold
a MSc. degree in a closely related area;

(b) have
strong background in and good knowledge of solid mechanics, composite structures
and numerical modeling techniques;

University of Connecticut: Multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant /associate/full professor level

Submitted by David M. Pierce on
job
tenure-track faculty positions

The Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department at the University of Connecticut invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant /associate /full professor level, with an expected start date of August 23, 2014. The attachments include both long and short ads.

Best regards, dmp

Abaqus python scripting, booleanmerge section assignment

Submitted by sina_khodaie on
software
ABAQUS
section assignment
Abaqus python script

Hey,

 I am writing a python script for modeling aggregates in a concrete cylinder. I have created a all the particles and and specified section properties to them and to the  cylinder.

The procedure I am using is to merge the particles and the cylinder while retaining the boundaries. If the sctions are assigned to the parts before merging, the result is the cylinder with the specified section assignmentsfor each part.

I wrote the code in python but seems like it does not include the section assignment to the new part from merge.

ESIS TC4 2014 - Abstract deadline reminder: 25 October 2013

Submitted by Laure Ballu on
conference
fracture
laminates
polymeric
structural adhesives
ESIS
TC4

7th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives - 14-18 September 2014, Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Switzerland

We are looking for both experimetal and analytical work, in order to give a balanced view of the subject areas:

- Polymers

- Application of fracture mechanics

- Adhesives

- Composites

For more information or to submit your abstract, go to www.esistc4conference.com  

 

 

Mechanical characterization and micromechanical modeling of bread dough. J.Rheol [http://dx.doi.org/10.1122/1.4768463]

Submitted by fendi on
micromechanics
Viscoelastic
cohesive damage model
bread-dough

The mechanical behavior of dough, gluten, and
starch was studied in an effort to investigate whether bread dough can be
treated as a two phase (starch and gluten) composite material. Mechanical
loading tests revealed rate-dependent behavior for both the starch and the
gluten constituents of dough. There is evidence from cryo-scanning electron
microscopy that damage in the form of debonding between starch and gluten
occurs when the sample is stretched. In addition, the Lodge material model was
found to deviate from the tension and shear stress-strain test data by a

How to do such integration with dummy indicials for strain energy density?

Submitted by pengfei_guo on
strain energy density
tensorial analysis
The integration puzzles me is
Integrate C_ijkl e_kl de_ij  (from 0 to e_ij )= 1/2 C_ijkl e_ij e_kl
which is the well known strain energy density of elasticity and much like the energy in a spring as
Integrate k x dx  (from 0 to x ) = 1/2 k x x.
By the way, this integration appears at page 226 in the book "Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures" by T Belytschko, B Moran, WK Liu, 1999, the book just directly throws out the result without any details.
Subscribe to Drupal blog posts