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Seeking postdoctoral research position in experimental mechanics

Submitted by Sandip Basu on

Hi

I am looking for a postdoctoral research position in experimental mechanics in US. I'll be graduating in January 2008 with a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University, Philadelphia. 

Electromechanical instability of large deformation in dielectric elastomers

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

I attach the slides of a presentation at the ASME meeting.  The talk was based on several recent papers on soft active materials (SAMs).  To give an uncluttered picture of the pull-in instability, I have removed all discussion on the Maxwell stress.   As you can see, the problem can be studied without ever mentioning this troublesome notion.

ABAQUS infinte elements

Submitted by Highlander on

Dear Colleague,

I'm Bosnian student and i want to use in
the ABAQUS infinite elements for the 3D model. Model is very simple, 3D box
and load acting in the middle of the model. Around loading surface I'm
using C3D8 elements and under i would like to use CIN3D8 elements. I
used to model box and
infinity as two separate parts and i tied this together in assembly mode. In
input file i changed just elements type of infinity part in to the CIN3D8
elements. But when i run the analysis i always get the error like: