Ali Hasan Nayfeh, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
For seminal analytical and experimental contributions to nonlinear dynamics and structural mechanics
Thomas C.T. Ting, Professor Emeritus, the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Consulting Professor, Stanford University
For significant contributions to the development of the Stroh formalism of anisotropic elasticity, and to the analyses of several fundamental inelastic and wave propagation problems
Hello,
The 53rd Congress of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (an International Meet) is slated to be held during last week of December 2008, in Hyderabad, India. The last date for sending in both the abstracts and the full-length papers is 30th September, 2008.
People from outside India are especially encouraged to participate. Hyderabad is well connected by flights. Usually, the ISTAM conferences are low on budget but high on enthusiasm. The ISTAM conferences typically cover a broad range of topics.
The Conference will be held in University of Technical Education, Hochiminh City
1, Vo Van Ngan, Thu Duc, Hochiminh City, Vietnam
November 27-30, 2008
Dear colleagues
I have written a user element subroutine by FORTRAN but when I call it through the ABAQUS (version 6.4), during loading the inp file, an error produces related to FORTRAN compiler (Compaq visual Fortran 6.5) as below:
ABAQUS JOB 2
ABAQUS version 6.4-PR11
Begin Linking ABAQUS/Standard User Subroutines
9/8/2008 8:41:40 AM
LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file "ifconsol.lib"
ABAQUS Error: Problem during linking - ABAQUS/Standard User Subroutines
Dear all,
I am new to X-FEM, started reading papers a couple of weeks before. I understood, functions[heaviside,sign..] are used to enrich the nodes to simulate virtually the discontinuity and asymptotic functions are used to charecterize the crack tip,other than this regular FEM nodes are there. I have few questions.
The Adhesion Society will hold its 32nd Annual Meeting in Savannah, GA February 15-18, 2009; uniting chemists, physicists, mechanists, engineers, and biologists concerned with the design and characterization of materials interfaces and their associated property of adhesion. Adhesion and interfacial constrol are key to the development of nano- and bio- based technologies as well structural and cosmetic applications that influence society in everyday life.
Professor Chad M. Landis, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin
For outstanding contributions to the mechanics of active materials
I have been told about "Spin Softening" option for rotating cylinders in Ansys but did not really understand how/what/why. I have gone thru Ansys documentation and it appears that the centrifugal loads are applied to the deformed configuration if the Spin Softening option is selected. Does Abaqus have a similar option ?
Now what the "Spin Softening" is meant to do is apply a centrifugal force:
F(r) = density*(r+u)*speed^2
