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Euler's buckling formula

Submitted by Fanfan WANG on

Hi, everyone,

I am new here. Now I am doing a research which is related to the Euler's buckling formula.  It is known that when the cylinder is thick enough, Euler's buckling formula is no longer valid. I want to know in which region of slenderness(aspect ratio) of a cylinder or column that the Euler's buckling formula is valid. Is there any analytical study or numerical results about it? Is there any suggestion or paper I can find?

 Thank you very much! 

Searching for a PHD position

Submitted by Elmon on

Dear everyone,

      I am 26 years old and I got my master's degree this year. My research domains are receding horizon control for wheeled mobile robot, neural network and speech endpoint detection.

      Now, I am searching for PHD position in Europe. I hope that somebody can give me some information. 

      Thank you.

Yours Sincerely

A Discrete Cohesive Model for Fractal Cracks

Submitted by arash_yavari on

The fractal crack model described here incorporates the essential

features of the fractal view of fracture, the basic concepts of

the LEFM model, the concepts contained within the

Barenblatt-Dugdale cohesive crack model and the quantized

(discrete or finite) fracture mechanics assumptions. The

well-known entities such as the stress intensity factor and the

Barenblatt cohesion modulus, which is a measure of material

toughness, have been re-defined to accommodate the fractal view of

fracture.

op2 from MSC Marc?

Submitted by pragtic on

Dear iMechanicians,

I wonder if anybody knows how to get an op2 file (MSC.Nastran) from MSC.Marc. Is something like that possible? Or do you know some available converter? Potentially, fil or odb file from ABAQUS or rst file from ANSYS could help as well. But I would expect there some way within the MSC product family...

Thanks a lot for any idea.

Jan Papuga

Multiple tenure-track faculty positions at Iowa State University

Submitted by Wei Hong on

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant, associate, or full professor ranks to begin August 2009. Applicants are sought in all areas of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics but preference will be given to those with interest and expertise in aerospace structures/mechanics of materials, multidisciplinary design and analysis, experimental thermal-fluids, propulsion, wind energy, and wind engineering.

Researchers Make New Electronics – With A Twist

Submitted by Jizhou Song on

PNAS 105, 18675 (2008) 

Dae-Hyeong Kim et al from Prof. Rogers’ group (University of Illinois), Prof. Jizhou Song (University of Miami), Prof. Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University), and their collaborators at IHPC in Singapore and Tsinghua University just published a paper as the featured cover article in PNAS.   

Post-doctoral fellowships in Bioengineering

Submitted by MichelleLOyen on

Highly competitive candidates are sought for locally-funded fellowships in biomechanics at Cambridge University.  The Next Generation Fellowships are being advertised through the new Centre for Trophoblast Research, an interdisciplinary research centre focused on the trophoblast, the critical cell in the development and function of the placenta.