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Harley Johnson will receive the 2010 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on
mechanician

Harley T. Johnson has just been selected to receive the 2010 Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.

I am writing on behalf of the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award Committee: Zhigang Suo (Chair), Tayfun E. Tezduyar, Ares J. Rosakis, Kenneth M. Liechti, Lawrence A. Bergman, Daniel J. Inman, Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar, Thomas N. Farris, Wing Kam Liu, and Mary C. Boyce.

Postdoc positions in Barcelona: modeling and simulation in biophysics

Submitted by Marino Arroyo on
job

We have several postdoctoral positions open, funded by an European Research Council Starting Grant. We look for candidates with a PhD in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, or
Applied/Computational Mathematics. In addition to excellent communication skills, initiative and an inclination for inter-disciplinary research, experience or interest in preferably more than two of the following areas is required:

Bridging the gap with a "stepping stone" for more solar energy

Submitted by Zhenyu Zhang on
research

Converting the abundant energy from the sun into a form convenient for human use has been a long standing dream for sustainable generation of environmentally clean energy.  With the seminal discovery of water splitting by Fujishima and Honda in the early 1970s [1], titanium dioxide (TiO2), an inexpensive white pigment widely used in our daily life, emerged as the premier photocatalysts for enabling solar energy utilization. However, because of its wide intrinsic band gap, TiO2 can absorb only ultraviolet light. This results in less than 1% efficiency for solar energy conversion. Reducing the band gap of TiO2 is the main avenue for boosting the conversion efficiency. In a recent paper to appear in Phys Rev. Lett. [2], Zhu et

Effective strain range

Submitted by Sushanta on
research

HI everyone

 

I am doing research using Sih's strain energy density concept for predicting  fatigue failure in asphalt pavements.  I am pretty new in this area and got stuck while reading some papers. Anybody has some idea how to predict the effective strain range near the crack tip. 

 

ΔE= A/Rj∫ΔEeff dr

and 

 how to get the constant A and β. 

 

 

regards 

sushanta bhusal

Green Tribology

Submitted by Dr. Michael No… on
opinion
tribology

Tribology is defined as the science and technology of interacting surfaces in relative motion, which involves friction, wear and lubrication.

The term “tribology” was introduced in the 1960s by Prof. Peter Jost.  In the consequent decades, various aspects of interacting surfaces in relative motion have been the focus of tribology, including, for example, the tribology of automotive applications, microelectromechanical systems, magnetic storage devices, adhesive contact, micro/nanotribology, biotribology.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor postion in Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin

Submitted by Chad Landis on
job

The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin has a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level beginning September 2010 in the area of Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials.

Contact Analysis using Abaqus 6.9

Submitted by iyousuf on
research
Using Ansys for Impact in composite

Dear All

 Currently I am working as a researcher and there is a new project on which i need some help. I have to do a contact analysis between two bodies initially and than move to low speed impact betrween two composite materials. I have just started using Abaqus and not very familiar with it. I have although completed some very basic application like cantilver beam and stress analysis, but struggling to complete a contact analysis between two bodies in a simple 2D problem.

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