At the invitation of Yonggang Huang, I’ll give 4-hour lectures at the NSF Summer Institute Course on the Mechanics of Soft Materials. I attach the slides of the lectures, to be given on Monday, 10 May 2010. An abstract of the lectures follows.
I welcome and encourage all my fellow imechanicians to participate in the international conference being organised at Thapar university patiala, punjab, india during november 2010.
The details regarding the conference and research paper format are attached.
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I am inspired by Mike Ciavarella's recent post on the Shape of the Eiffel Tower to share a bit of my own obsession with the Tower...
I am trying to model a simple 2-D consolidation test in Abaqus. I am essentially applying a distributed line load across the top of a square soil mesh. The excess pore pressures that are generated are plotting as negatives. Is this the expected sign convention for a 2-phase soil/water mesh in compression?
For those who work in the field of uncertain mechanics, please have a look at OpenTURNS. Wrappers to link your favorite code are easy to built.
OpenTURNS
What is OpenTURNS ?
OpenTURNS is an Open source initiative to Treat Uncertainties, Risks’NStatistics in a structured industrial approach.
Job Title:Computational Geomechanics Job Summary:ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company has an immediate opening in Computational Mechanics for research scientist at our Corporate Strategic Research Laboratory. Our lab focuses on fundamental science that can lead to technologies having a direct impact on the oil and gas industry.
I saw this on Science Daily, anyone knows ?
A fully funded PhD position is immediately available in the area of multi-scale modeling of geomaterials within the research project "Failure of cohesive geomaterials: bridging the scales - GEOBRIDGE" at Laboratoire Sols, Solides, Structures - Risques (3S-R), Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France.
I have a beginner's question on DCB testing of polymers. The fracture strength during Mode 1 loading increases with crack length due to the compliance of the test specimen. In other words it becomes harder to induce fracture as the crack length increases.Is my understanding correct?
Thanks
Venkat
