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Hi all,

Dear Colleagues:

We are currently soliciting abstracts for the 2012 ASME IMECE conference on November 9-15, 2012 in Houston, TX.  The symposium is entitled Tribology of Thin Films and Small-Scale Structures and is part of the Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids Track.

PRL 108,
078103
(2012),  http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v108/i7/e078103

See also Physics Viewpoint by Bin and Huajian, http://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/19

Inside Science News Service, http://www.insidescience.org/news-service/1.2462

Topic: PhD Fellowship in “Risk
and Reliability of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations”

Location: NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

Deadline: 09 Mar 2012

Salary: NOK 391 100 to NOK 448
100 per year (equivalent of approximately £43 000 to £50 000)

I am writing to let you know the release of VAMUCH 3.0,  the 3rd version of our general-purpose micromechanics code. The main new features are:

dear friends, i want to know how to get the tsai -wu failure criteria for orthotropic material in ANSYS.after modelling and giving the material properties ,should i give anything special to activate this option ,or will i get automatically this  criteria for all the elements from the output file itself.

please help me as my research work couldnt able to proceed.

Hello everyone,

I am working on a project related to helping the everyday researcher do his/her programming easier and faster.

I have done a fair amount of research work at OSU and have gotten a feel for the way they program on a daily basis, but realize that it could be and probably is drastically different on different parts of the planet. As such, I am here to ask the following questions (really, any opinion helps, so feel free to respond with whatever you want):

Dear Colleagues,

 

With this notice, I would like to call your attention for the ongoing Call for Papers for the FraMCoS-8, 8th International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures, that will take place in Toledo-Spain from 10 to 14 March 2013.

 

Abstracts will be accepted until 15 March 2012.

 

I'm pleased to see that over 600 of you have at least read some of my comments and I wouldn't be surprise if not all of you read through to the end.

National Academy of Engineering Elects

66 Members and 10 Foreign Associates

                   WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 66 new members and 10 foreign associates, announced NAE President Charles M. Vest today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,254 and the number of foreign associates to 206.