Contact Mechanics
I would like to have some text and material on contact mechanics.
Please help.
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Postdoc research associate and PhD student positions available
One postdoc and several PhD student positions are available at Clarkson University. Research background in at least one of the following areas is preferred.
1. Fatigue and fracture of materials and structures, computational mechanics and numerical methods
2. Probabilistic methods, Bayesian statistics, reliability and risk assesment
3. Structural dynamics, health monitoring, signal processing, system identification
Ph.D. Research Position in Mechanical Engineering (Composites/Smart Materials)
Ph.D. research assistantship is available in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Qualified applicants should contact Dr. Parsaoran Hutapea (Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering) by email at hutapea [at] temple.edu.
Postdoctoral position in micromechanics of composites at Risø National Laboratory, Technical University of Denmark
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a Postdoctoral position in the framework of a research project "High reliability of large wind turbines via computational micromechanics based enhancement of materials performances" at the Risoe DTU.
suggest a proposal
Hi everyone,
I'm a master student of mechanical engineering in the field of applied design.
I am looking for a good proposal to convince the university to accept that for
my final research. I appreciate that anyone can help me with this.
thank you
Research Associate Opening at The British University in Egypt
The Center for Advanced Materials (CAM) at the British University in Egypt (BUE) has an opening for full time Research Associate to fill immediately. BUE is located in El-Shorouk City, 30 km east of Cairo and provides a UK work environment. Information about BUE and CAM can be found at www.bue.edu.eg and cam.bue.edu.eg.
Description: To work on aproject related to modeling of composite materials and structures. The project focuses on micromechanics, multifunctional constituents and finite element implementation of developed models.
Reinforced concrete beam in ANSYS 11
Hello,
I am trying to model a reinforced concrete beam in ANSYS 11. This software is new to me and I am having some problem in defining the reinforcement using the software. I have found some of the similar work in ANSYS have used SOLID 65 for concrete and LINK 8 for reinforcement. But I don't know how to input the link element as reinforcement. Since I am just starting to use ANSYS, can somebody please help me by providing some of the basic steps to model a reinforced concrete beam?
Thanks.
Teaching FEM to Biologists/Medics
All,
Could anyone recommend courses, online materials or text books that
would be suitable for teaching the finite element method to someone with
a non-engineering background. This request is on behalf of an MD
student wishing to use the FEM for modelling the wrist. We're initially
looking for introductory materials.
Best regards
Lee
The "Goldilocks" Effect in Fossilized Dinosaur Trackways
The following paper is now online:
Falkingham P.L., Bates K.T., Margetts L. and Manning P.L. (2011) "The
'Goldilocks' effect: Presevational bias in vertebrate track
assemblages", Journal of the Royal Society Interface
See: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/01/12/rsif.20…
Authors welcome any comments for future studies!