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Faculty Opportunity in Thermal Sciences/Energy Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University

http://www.mems.duke.edu/employment

I am working with shape memory alloys (nitinol), and am in that respect investigating fracture behaviour of NiTi, using, among other things, simulations in ABAQUS. ABAQUS doesn't have a material model that include plasticity unless you pay for it. I am wondering if anyone have implemented either of the following models as a UMAT, and if you are willing to share the code with me.

The models I am interested in are:

Read here the complete job announcement

Phys. Rev. E 80, 046601 (2009) [5 pages]

Power loss and electromagnetic energy density in a dispersive metamaterial medium

Having glanced at the web site I can see that it might be useful to shed some light on fatigue crack growth and crack closure based concepts.

Are you curious to learn more about FEA or CFD simulations on patient-specific data? Then Materialise and ANSYS would like to invite you to their upcoming free seminar on “Virtual Prototyping Breakthroughs for Innovative Healthcare Applications”, where you will learn how numerical solutions can help the Biomedical and Healthcare industry in the development of innovative solutions.



Practical Info

- Date: Friday, November 20th, 2009.

- Cost: FREE!

- Location: Leuven (Belgium), Materialise HQ office

The following message is from Dr. Frans Spaepen at Harvard University:

Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics 



Email: martin.chiang [at] nist.gov 

Homepage: http://www.nist.gov/msel/polymers/biomaterials/martin_chiang.cfm

Research area: Biomechanics 

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