At the 2007 ASME Congress, in Seattle, Professor Wing Kam Liu won the 2007 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award. Wing Kam was a past chair of the Applied Mechanics Division, and has made seminal contributions in the field of computational mechanics.
A new report has been published on the "leaky pipeline" question:
A persistent problem. Traditional gender roles hold back female scientists
Simpleware Ltd. and COMSOL Inc. announced at the COMSOL Users Conference 2007 in Grenoble a partnership agreement to provide an export interface from Simpleware's world-leading 3D image-based meshing software +ScanFE™ to COMSOL Multiphysics® 3.4, the industry's foremost multiphysics simulation environment. The +ScanFE interface enables COMSOL users to directly import high-quality meshes generated from MRI, CT, and MicroCT scan data into COMSOL Multiphysics 3.4 for modelling and simulation without requiring re-meshing or pre-processing.
I'm studying cracking analyses in a three point loaded specimen of a composed beam.I'm using ANSYS and i want to create codes for estimation of J integral and energy release rate in the vicinity of crack tip.After that i'll calculate the stresses and strains fields,and then i can compare the equivalent fields i retrived using CTOD and K(I,II,III) factors (according to ANSYS algorithm).
My problem is that I'd like to find a relationship between the above mentioned quantities(J,G) with K(I,II,III)factors.
Rather than scratching heads when faced with a seemingly impossible contradiction in a job, engineers could do worse than apply the Triz theory.
There has been quite a buzz around Triz, the Russian theory of problem solving, for some time. Since it was fully refined in the mid-1980s its use has been slowly spreading as word gets round, much like the increasing popularity of a political movement.
I am graduated with MS degree of Offshore Engineering in Amirkabir University of technology, Tehran, Iran.
My Ms Thesis was “Interaction between water waves and floating moored spar platforms”.
I defended my thesis at the end of October 2007, and I am looking for a PhD Course Scholarship now.
My field was naval architect in Bsc, and my thesis was about preparing ship hydrodynamic resistance and propulsion.
Applied Mechanics Division Banquet, Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, Washington, November 13th, 2007.
Hi
I have read some descriptions about beam element in chapter 14 of Element Library of ANSYS Theory Reference(ANSYS Help),it is mentioned that the stiffness matrix of a beam element in element coordinates is a 12x12 matrix that its elements are calculated in the same way as przemieniecki's book(Przemieniecki, J. S., Theory of Matrix Structural Analysis, McGraw-Hill, New York (1968))
Unfortunately I didn't find this book in the library,if any body has read this book,if it is possible guide me how przemieniecki have reached to such stiffness matrix?
In order to try and get some of the vast store of engineering information we're sitting on out to a wider audience we've created a number of occasional subject guides for engineers and students. The aim is to highlight sources of information available from our Library and the Institution itself.
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