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2011 Drucker Medal paper by Prof. John Rudnicki

Submitted by Yonggang Huang on

Journal of Applied Mechanics just published the 2011 Drucker Medal Paper: Localized Compaction in Porous Sandstones, authored by Profesor John Rudnicki from Northwestern University.  

http://appliedmechanics.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleid=1724444

Professor John Rudnicki received the ASME Drucker Medal in 2011. 

large deformation of beam element

Submitted by mjalilych1 on

hello

my name is mohamad. I am phd student in mechanical engineering. I want to use of total lagrangian formulation for analysis of a cantilever. my difficulty is on implementation of newton raphson method and incrementing load. my code does not converge. can you help me. if there is a simple code I was wondering if someone aware me.

thanks in advance.

Nonlinear elastic inclusions in isotropic solids

Submitted by arash_yavari on

We introduce a geometric framework to calculate the residual stress fields and deformations of nonlinear solids with inclusions and eigenstrains. Inclusions are regions in a body with different reference configurations from the body itself and can be described by distributed eigenstrains. Geometrically, the eigenstrains define a Riemannian 3-manifold in which the body is stress-free by construction. The problem of residual stress calculation is then reduced to finding a mapping from the Riemannian material manifold to the ambient Euclidean space.

Open Position in Computation Solid Mechanics

Submitted by aboufelfel on

Position: Computational Solid Mechanics Engineer

 

Company: Global Engineering Research and Technologies

 

Location: Tucson, AZ. 

 

Full/Part time: Full time. 

 

Benefits: Yes.

 

Salary: Commensurate with qualifications.

 

Remote employment: No. Must be willing to relocate.

 

Postdoctoral Position Opening at University of Western Ontario Starting from January 2014

Submitted by Zhi Yan on

Prof. Liying Jiang at the Mechanical & Materials Engineering Department of University of Western Ontario is seeking a postdoctoral researcher (http://www.eng.uwo.ca/people/lyjiang/)