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Einstein's birthday, the PI day

Submitted by Pi-Gang Luan on

The day before yesterday, Mar. 14 (3.14), was a great date, because Albert Einstein was born at the same day 130 years ago.

I and my wife enjoyed a very good holiday that day in Taipei. Most interestingly, we found a vivid statue of Einstein made by Ju Ming, stood still in front of the Chen-Ping (eslite) bookstore.

We took several photos around this statue. Here I share one of them with you.

Assigning two material behavioour to a beam

Submitted by manoochehr on

Hi Everyone,

I am quite new to this blog, and I enjoy of studying your comments. I have a problem in ABAQUS/CAE. I am trying to model a wood beam that has two beahviour in tension and compression. Elasto-Plastic behaviour in tension and in compression Elsto-Brittle behaviour. Is there any way to model this material in ABAQUS. My problem mainly comes back to this case that we can not assign to a beam two materail behaviour simultanously.

Thank you for your reply.

Manoochehr 

Looking for a Postdoctoral/Research Associate Position

Submitted by Nishantkumar on

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have recently (Fall–08) completed my Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with specialization in general areas of nonlinear structural dynamics and model order reduction. If any Prof. or research organization has an opening for a postdoc position in the areas of my technical expertise, please let me know at kumarnish [at] hotmail.com (kumarnish[at]hotmail[dot]com).

Thanks,

Nishant

Finite Deformation: Special Cases

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

The notes on finite deformation have been divided into two parts: special cases and general theory (node/538). In class I start with special cases, and then sketch the general theory. But the two parts can be read in any order.

Abaqus embedded truss problem

Submitted by hmousad on

Hello,

 I'm trying to model a hollow pipe that have inside a 3D truss element. I've embedded the truss upper part in that cube shown in the picture attached.

The problem is when I apply lateral force what happens is that the bar just don't follow the pipe in its motion. The last mesh element in the embedded part isn't attached anymore to the upper cube.

Stress-induced martenstic phase transformation in Cu-Zr nanowires

Submitted by Vijay Kumar Sutrakar on

Hi Friends

I want to share some of our recent research work on the stress induced phase transformation of CuZr nanowire which is published in Materials Letters.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2009.02.064