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The story behind the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Submitted by Joseph X. Zhou on

When I came to the institute, my collaborator Kay invited me for a dinner in the new town together with his friend Thilo and other guys. The city is wisely divided into two functioning areas, old town and new town. All the ancient buildings like King’s summer palace, women’s church and opera house are in the old town; while the restaurants, bars and other modern buildings are in the new town. Each is in harmony with its environment and cultural atmosphere.

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Reception during the MRS Fall Meeting

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

You are cordially invited to attend a reception, hosted by Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, during the MRS Fall Meeting, on Monday, 26 November 2007, from 7:30 pm to 10 pm, at Independence Room East, 2nd Floor, Sheraton Boston Hotel & Towers, 39 Dalton Street, Boston, MA.

Dean Venky Narayanamurti, Joanna Aizenberg, Michael Aziz, Shriram Ramanathan, Frans Spaepen, Zhigang Suo, Joost Vlassak

Multiaxial behavior of nanoporous single crystal copper: a molecular dynamics study

Submitted by Kejie Zhao on

The stress-strain behavior and incipient yield surface of nanoporous single crystal copper are studied by the molecular dynamics (MD) method. The problem is modeled by a periodic unit cell subject to multi-axial loading. The loading induced defect evolution is explored. The incipient yield surfaces are found to be tension-compression asymmetric. For given void volume fraction, apparent size effects in the yield surface are predicted: the smaller behaves stronger.

Stress and Strain: Basic Concepts of Continuum Mechanics for Geologists

Submitted by Eric Kiser on

This book begins by describing real life examples of mechanical states of different materials.  The book next discusses stress.  This discussion includes force, mohr circles, tensor components of stress, and stress fields.  Next strain is discussed.  This ranges from measuring deformation to tensor components of infinite and finite strain.  The book concludes by outlining different material behaviors.  These include Hookean behavior and Newtonian behavior.  This last section also discusses energy consumed in deformation.

I wrote a batch file for Crack growth model for ANSYS but when the soution is running,ANSYS terminate itself...Why?

Submitted by kvdalmisli on

Hello everybody,

I am searching precision of crack propogation in a bonded wafer double.I wrote a code but the problem is that when I want to solve it in ANSYS, the program is shutdown. I need help about it. Thanks for your helps...

 Greetings

 Volkan DALMISLI

P.S:The code is given below. 

finish

/title,sphere wafer

/filname,sphere wafer

/clear,start