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Teaching FEM to Biologists/Medics

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

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

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

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!

Programme available for 4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues

Submitted by Laure Ballu on

Programme available for 4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues

www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/conference-programme.html

11-15 December 2011, Marriott Waikoloa Beach Resort and Spa, Hawai’i

Submit your abstract by 15 April 2011

www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com

Defining general contact in axisymmetric analysis with share node cohesive elements

Submitted by prabhat on

Dear All,

I am am using share node cohesive element in axisymmetric analysis. I want to use friction between two joined blocks when cohesive elements break. I tried this with using general contact definition in Abaqus 6.8. To do so, I am defining element based surface but while running the simulation the abaqus gives following error:

***ERROR: *CONTACT currently does not support the use of 2D surfaces.

 Can anyone help to find out what can be wrong with my surface definition.

With regards and best wishes,

Prabhat

Call for abstracts for a minisymposium on the multiscale constitutive modeling of materials at the 11th US NATIONAL CONGRESS ON

Submitted by arash_yavari on

The session organizers would like to invite researchers to participate in a minisymposium titled "Multiscale constitutive modeling of materials" at the 11th US NATIONAL CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS (USNCCM 11) to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from July 25-29, 2011.

Tuition waive scholarship for CSC applicant

Submitted by Zaoyang Guo on

There are several tuition waive scholarshipes available in my group, which are suitable to CSC (China Scholarship Council) applicants. If you are intrested in solid mechanics and plan to pursue a PhD degree in school of civil engineering and geosciences, Newcastle University, UK, please send your CV to me at zyguo01 [at] gmail.com.

SAE 2011 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress and Exhibition

Submitted by farjoud on

Dear Colleagues,

 

On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the

 

SAE 2011 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress and Exhibition September 13-14, 2011 

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center 

Rosemont, Illinois 

http://www.sae.org/events/cve/