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Minisymposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis of Thin Films and Multilayer Structures at WCCM 2016, Seoul, Korea

Submitted by Zheng Jia on

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XII) and 6th Asia-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM VI) will be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, during 24 – 29 July, 2016. As part of this meeting, we are organizing a mini-symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis of Thin Films and Multilayer Structures (MS962) which will touch on recent advances in modeling and analysis of thin films and multilayer structures.

 

Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to)

Michael McAlpine and Xuanhe Zhao to receive Extreme Mechancis Letters Award

Submitted by katia bertoldi on

Michael McAlpine (University of Minnesota) and  Xuanhe Zhao (MIT) will receive the 2015 EML Young Investigator Award  honoring the best paper published in Extreme Mechanics Letters by a young scientist in 2014 or 2015. Michael is being recognized for his paper, "Pyro-paraelectricity,” which was published in the March 2015 issue of the journal. Xuanhe is awarded for the paper, "Predicting Fracture Energies and Crack-Tip Fields of Soft Tough Materials,” which was published in the September 2015 issue of the journal.

plate

Submitted by mina rakhshi on

Hi friends,

I want to model a plate with fix supports in APDL ANSYS but I receive an error that send it for you. dimensions of the plate are (0.2*0.2)m2 and carries pressure load 50(KN/m2).

please help me,

mina.

 

 

Ashby PhD Scholarship in the Mechanics of Materials

Submitted by Helen Gardner on
research

A fully funded PhD scholarship exists in the area of mechanics of materials, endowed in honour of Prof M F Ashby. The successful applicant will have a 1st class degree (and ideally a Masters degree) in an appropriate field. The precise topic of the PhD can be fixed after the scholarship has been awarded.

Further details may be obtained from Ms H A Gardner (has22 [at] cam.ac.uk (has22[at]cam[dot]ac[dot]uk)) .

Linear smoothed polygonal and polyhedral finite elements - paper submitted to IJNME

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on
research
strain smoothing
integration
meshfree
smoothed fem
stabilized conforming nodal integration
linear smoothing
constant smoothing
stability
approximability
consistency

http://wp.me/p619L5-GT

Link to new paper submitted to IJNME last week

http://hdl.handle.net/10993/22417 Link

http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/22417 Link

Reception in celebration of the 1st anniversary of Extreme Mechanics Letters

Submitted by Teng Li on
research
EML

Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) is turning 1. Come and join us for a reception to celebrate the 1st anniversary of EML during the 2015 MRS Fall Meeting.  See the attached reception flyer for details. All are welcome! 

Location: Sheraton Boston Hotel, Gardner, 3rd Floor

Address: 39 Dalton St, Boston, MA 02199

Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

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