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Guidelines for Suggesting Peer Reviewers for Manuscripts
As a journal editor, I am often surprised by some of the suggestions authors make for potential reviewers. In some cases the suggestions are not very good, and on occasion authors do not suggest reviewers at all. Some authors will even state explicitly that they cannot think of any reviewers, which is really surprising.
Postdoctoral Position in Solid Mechanics in Mechanical Engineering at University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Postdoctoral Position in Solid Mechanics
in Mechanical Engineering at University of Ulsan, Republic of Korea
Advisor: Prof. Seungtae Choi, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan
Location: Ulsan City, Republic of Korea
Description: In the Laboratory for Functional Materials and Applied Mechanics of University of Ulsan, one
or two postdoctoral positions are available for the following research subjects:
(1) Development of Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Sensors,
academia
16th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics ICEM16, 7-11 July 2014 in Cambridge, UK
The 16th in a series of conferences, starting in Delft in 1959 and following on from the last conference in Porto in 2012 this is the premier event to showcase novel and innovative research in Experimental Mechanics. The conference will take place in Cambridge with the accommodation at Robinson College and the technical sessions at both Robinson and the West Road Concert Hall.
Tension in Non - linear springs - How do I measure it?
Dear sir,
I am modeling ligament structures in the knee joint finite element model
with non-linear springs and I am successfully getting non-linear
displacement curve.
My only problem is with the calculation of tension in the springs. I
have a set of non-linear springs representing a particular ligament in
the joint, which is having an elongation when I apply the forces on the
joint. I am giving pre-load to the springs so that they do not have any
slack in them before the analysis. I am also specifying the stiffness of
PhD position at RMIT, University
One Ph.D. student position is available at the Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials RMIT, University. The research topic is about computational mechnaics and structural topology optimisation. It is expected to enroll in the end of this Auguest. More details please contact with e89817 [at] rmit.edu.au
PhD position at RMIT, University
One Ph.D. student position is available at the Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials RMIT, University. The research topic is about computational mechnaics and structural topology optimisation. It is expected to enroll in the end of this Auguest. More details please contact with e89817 [at] rmit.edu.au
Many mechanicians will receive awards from ASME.
Many people from mechnaics community will receive prestigious awards from ASME this year.
Ted Belytschko will receive the ASME Honorary Membership;
Wei Cai will receive the Tom Hughes Young Investigator Medal;
T.W. Chou will receive the Nadai Medal;
Richard Christensen will receive the Timoshenko Medal;
Normal Fleck will receive the Koiter Medal;
Yonggang Huang will receive the Drucker Medal;
Sia Nemat-Nasser will receive the ASME Medal;
Ting Zhu and Vicky Nguyen will receive the Sia Nemat-Nasser early career medal.
Convergence of a Solution
The Solution of a Differential Equation or a Set of Differential Equations Converges vers the Exact if it is Consistant and it is Stable : Lax's Theorem. Since the Exact is not always known it is convenient to apply this Theorem. Numerical instabilities are a result of Roundoff errors and Truncation errors. The Domain of Stability can be obtained from a Von Newman analysis in the Complex domain. This implies a condition (relation) between the variation steps.
Mohammed Lamine