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Mechanical design principles of ancient fish armor

Submitted by ChristineOrtiz on Sat, 08/02/2008 - 00:00

Materials design principles of ancient fish armour

Benjamin J. F. Bruet, Juha Song, Mary C. Boyce & Christine Ortiz

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Number of registered users passed 8000 on the first day of 08 08

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 23:54

The number of registered users of iMechanica passed 8000 this afternoon. The total number of posts is 3622, and the total number of comments 8429. The total number of hits was 3.4 millions in March, 5.6 millions in April, 2.4 millions in May, and 2.7 millions in June.

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I am looking for a PhD Studentship

Submitted by DoQuangHuy on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 19:58

Hi, I am a master student in Stuttgart University of Germany

I study Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures

http://www.msc.commas.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html

I am going to finish my master degree in May 2009, and have a plan to do PhD study in Computational Mechanics in the next year,

I also have background in Civil Engineering and Computer Science. Please find my CV attached below.

Solving Reynolds equation (EHL problem)

Submitted by MScaraggi on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 14:11

I'm working on the numerical solution of the mixed problem in lubricated contacts. Does anyone know if the lubricant equation (Reynolds one) was never solved for film thickness instead of pressure (like actually is done with MGMI techniques) in some pubblication?