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Ph.D. on Aircraft Alloys

Submitted by Peter F. Thomson on

Linkage Project under Grant from Australian Research Committee (ARC)

Topic: Structure and Properties of Aircraft Alloys Subjected to Equal Channel Angular Processing

 Industrial Partner: The Boeing Corp. Phantom Works, St Louis, USA 

Supervisor: Dr Peter Thomson, Department of Materials Engineering, Monash University 

Strain energy density for a plate under uniform stretch deformation

Submitted by Mijia Yang on

Can anyone give a definition about strain energy density for a plate? When a plate under a uniform stretch s, some gives an equation like ek=Es2/2(1+μ)(1-2μ), some gives ek=Es2/2. What are the difference of these two definition? Please note both of the cases are for plane stress conditions. If under plane strain conditions, what is the definition for its strain energy density? Thanks for help.

Graduate (PhD/MS) studentship available in Utah State University

Submitted by Dhirendra Kubair on

There are several  fully funded graduate student openings in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Utah State University (http://www.mae.usu.edu). The openings are in the broad area of Computational Solid Mechanics. In particular, applicants having demonstrated interest (in terms of completed projects, authorship in journal articles or coursework) in Fracture Mechanics are especially invited.