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ERC Advanced Grant 2013 to Professor Davide Bigoni

Submitted by lucadeseri on

Join us to congratulate Professor Davide
Bigoni, who has just been awarded with the ERC Advanced Grant
Proposal 340561 - Instabilities and nonlocal multiscale modelling of
materials, years 2014-2018, 2.4 M.

Congratulations Davide!

 

 

More on Davide's research:

www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/

http://ssmg.unitn.it/

Higher-order adaptive finite-element methods for Kohn-Sham density functional theory

Submitted by Vikram Gavini on

Dear Colleagues,

I wish to share with you our recent article on "Higher-order adaptive finite-element method for Kohn-Sham density functional theory", which will soon appear in the Journal of Computational Physics. Below is the abstract and attached is a preprint of the article.

P. Motamarri, N.R. Nowak, K. Leiter, J. Knap, V. Gavini, Higher-order adaptive finite-element methods for Kohn-Sham density functional theory, J. Comp. Phys. 253, 308-343 (2013).

Bending of cables : a stick-slip model

Submitted by Alain Cardou on

Bending of cables and, for that matter, of any helical strand system (such as overhead electrical conductors) is a challenging solid mechanics problem, with geometry and multibody frictional contact aspects. As seen in several recent papers, one workable approach is based on Coulomb’s laws of friction.  An earlier contribution by Lehanneur (1949), published in French, has generally been  ignored. The attached report presents a translation into English (including a presentation) of this most interesting work.

Saturated Soil Material Property in abaqus

Submitted by rahul_umkc on

Hello everyone,

I need an urgent help. I have no idea how to define two phase poroelastic soil in abaqus. Water and soil should be treated as two different materials rather than a single material. And how to define the poroelasticity (saturated soil). Can abaqus perform these analysis.

(1) Coupled quasi-static for saturated soil

(2) Coupled dynamic for saturated soil (the UEL/UMAT) -- this is
reported as a UMAT.
Please help me how to sdo these steps and how to define UEL/UMAT
Regards
Rahul

Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar Equipment

Submitted by AndrewH on

Many prior posts asked about manufacturers of Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar equipment. REL Inc in Calumet MI (http://www.relinc.net/products/hopkinson-bar/) designs, builds & installs custom equipment to meet your requirements. We offer a university discount.  And, we provide in-house testing; manufacturing of samples, etc. A new offering in this field is our SurePulse software which simplifies the data acquisition effort for Hopkinson bar testing. 

A question for the audience:

PhD opportunities at recently funded a €25 million Centre for Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI).

Submitted by jamiegoggins on

5 PhD Opportunities in Composite Materials and Structural Testing in Marine Renewable Energy

The PhDs are being funded at the National University of Ireland, Galway as part of the SFI Marine Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI) Centre, starting from September/October this year.

The positions are as follows:

1. Application of Low-Cost, High Performance Thermoset Materials to Marine Renewable Energy Device Structures

2. Application of Low-Cost, Reactive Thermoplastic Materials to Marine Renewable Energy Device Structures

Overall Mechanical Response of Particle-Reinforced Elastomers at Finite Strains

Submitted by rezaavaz on

[img_assist|nid=15079|title=Elastomers Reinforced by Spherical Particles Under Different Loading Conditions|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=300|height=264]Abstract An approximate homogenization method is proposed and used to obtain estimates for the effective constitutive behavior and associated microstructure evolution in hyperelastic composites undergoing finite-strain deformations.