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Michael Ortiz and David Hibbitt are elected to the US National Academy of Engineering
Today, February 7th, the NAE is announcing the election of 69 new members and 11 new foreign associates. The public announcement will be issued at 10:00 a.m. (EST) and will be posted on the NAE website.
Congratulations to Michael Ortiz and David Hibbitt!
Orthotropic plasticity model
Dear all,
Is there any one of you know a material model which can reflect the orthotropic , hysteresis, and load ratio dependence behaviors?
Every helps would be highly appreciated.
Kindest regards,
Ken
PhD positions available in MSE department at Missouri S&T
Two openings are available for PhD candidates in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Missouri S&T. Students with background in metallic materials, mechanics of materials or solid mechanics are welcome to apply.
More information about application and our research group can be found at following links:
http://mse.mst.edu/prospectivegraduatestudents/gradinfo/
https://sites.google.com/site/ddrgmst/
NNIN/C Computational Cluster at U-M open to researchers
The National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network’s computational project (NNIN/C) is a multi-university initiative, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of NNIN, to establish a user accessible national computing resource for nanotechnology. This network is open to the academic and industrial research community and provides hardware resources and simulation tools dedicated to nanoscience
research.
Elasticity of rubber-like materials
In the notes on the general theory of finite deformation, we have left the free energy function unspecified. The notes here describe free energy function commonly used to describe the elasticity of rubber-like materials. These notes are part of a course on advanced elasticity
Vicky Nguyen and Kaushik Dayal are Recipients of the Inaugural Eshleby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty
It gives me great pleasure to announce the outcome of the inaugural competition for the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty. This award, created in 2012, will be annually given to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics. The intent of the award is to promote the field of mechanics, especially among young researchers. The selection committee consisted of: K. Ravi-chandar (UT Austin), Huajian Gao (Brown University), Kaushik Bhattacharya (Caltech), Roger Fosdick (Minnesota University), and Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University).
Faculty Opening: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor – Experimental Biomechanics, Mechanobiology and Biophysics
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston (UH) invites
applications for tenure-track or tenured faculty position, at all levels, beginning Fall 2013 or later.
Successful candidates are expected to establish an internationally recognized
dynamic research program in the area of experimental biomechanics and
mechanobiology. Special preference would be given to those pursuing cellular
level and/or single molecule studies of living systems with emphasis on
healthcare applications. Exceptionally strong senior candidates will be
characteristic Length
Hi
is there a way to get the characteristic length of one element? I wanna calculate xult (when the element is cracked, fracutred..).
I use the concrete damage plasticity model and after reaching the tensile strength i assume a linear softening with fracture energy.
Input are:
Young´s modulus
max. tensile strength
fracture energy
Outpu:
when do i reach xult or what is the plastic strain equivalent