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Career opportunities for Computational Mechanics in Industries

Submitted by pani3882 on

Hello Everybody

I am S Phaneendra, a Computational Mechanics Masters Student at UPC, Barcelona. I will be completing my masters degree by June 2009. I am working masters thesis, developing a material model for composites. Can anyone pls do me a favour by listing a few industries which can provide career opportunities for me in the related field.

Thank You

 

Post Doctoral position at French research centre LMPM-ENSMA : numerical developement applied to multiphysic coupling

Submitted by mikael gueguen on

 

The LMPM (http://www.lmpm.ensma.fr) seeks candidates for a post-doctoral position in the domain of numerical development applied to the modelling of coupled phenomena. It consists in understanding, modelling and simulating the different couplings (like mechanical, thermal, chemical and diffusion problems) on industrial cases.

The LMPM is a research centre in France which focuses on  durability of material under severe environment (multiphysic coupling).

ABOUT Work done by a pressure applied to a system

Submitted by Lianhua Ma on

I have one question  about work done by a pressure applied to a system.  The book of Thermodynamics often always present pdV (where dV is the change in the volume of the system. )but never Vdp, Why is that? Is it because we don't treat p as a variable? In a grand canonical ensemble is pressure constant for any system?

Acording to Thermodynamics first law,  du=dq-dw , where dw denotes work done by pressure and external force.  dw=pdv+dw' .   dq=Tds (Thermodynamics second law)

so, dU=TdS-Pdv-dw' 

Is imechanica evolving into mechanics.craigslits?

Submitted by Temesgen Markos on

Lately I am feeling like imechanica is becoming a craigslist for mechanics than a forum. Most recent blogs are simply ads that do not generate any discussion. Neither do questions from people get any reply, not any where near to what it used to be.

The last journal club had about five or so replies and the current one has no comment with two days to end.

Is it just me or does any body else feel the same too? I feel we have to think about how we can have a community here than just a repository of mechanics related stuff.  

Tsai-Wu criteria on ANSYS

Submitted by filipe_pedro on

Hello everyone.

I'm trying to apply the Tsai-Wu criteria to a composite plate in ANSYS. I'm using the SHELL99 element.

However, when I input the data for the criteria an error occours and ANSYS won't show me any results on the criteria.

Can someone help me? How do I use this criteria and what data should I use?

Thanks in advance