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PhD vacancy (4 years) on simulation and testing of short fibre-reinforced composites for application in heat exchangers @ Ghent University (Belgium)

Submitted by wvpaepeg on

Almost all heat exchangers are currently made of metal. A few attempts have been made to make heat exchangers from (fibre-reinforced) polymers. Switching from metal to polymer/composite can have several advantages:

PhD positions at UBC, Vancouver

Submitted by Srikanthubc on

Applications are sought from very strong and motivated gradaute students intending to puruse PhD studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC, Vancouver, Canada. The areas of immeidate interest are (a) Elastodynamics of lattice materials and phononic crystals, (b) mechanics of nanomaterials and   (c) Friction induced  nonlinear vibrations. Please see  http://dalubc.wordpress.com for full description and recent publications from our group.

Abaqus DISP Subroutine

Submitted by SavanRGowda on

Hi everyone!! 

I am a student studying in Hamburg University of Technology. I am currently doing my thesis and want some help in finishing it. I am finding it a bit difficult to do subroutine in Fortran as I am new to it. I have tried learning from Abaqus Documentation but I didn't get answer to my needs. 

I already have a text file that contains Nodes, X,Y,Z coordinates and the displacement values to be assigned. 
For Example: Nodes  X_coord  Y_coord  Z_coord  U 

Mechanics of Additively Manufactured Biomaterials and Implants: Special issue of J Mech Behav Biomed Mater

Submitted by azadpoor on

Additive manufacturing (AM) has emerged as a powerful technique for manufacturing of various types of biomaterials and implants. Using AM, it is now possible to fabricate biomaterials with arbitrarily complex shapes at different scales. The inventory of biomaterials that can be used in this way continues to increase, extending the possible range of products and applications.

Call for abstract for APS March 2016 Focus Session Physics of Bioinspired Materials, Deadline November 6 2015

Submitted by Qiming Wang on

Dear Colleagues,

The upcoming APS March Meeting 2016 will take place at Baltimore, MD during March 14-18 2016. Here, we would like to invite you to contribute to a focus session called “Physics of Bioinspired Materials”.  

Session title: 2.1.3 (same as 4.1.17) Physics of Bioinspired Materials (GSOFT/DBIO)

Link: http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/scientific/focus.cfm#213

Work of adhesion/separation between soft elastomers of different mixing ratios

Submitted by Yalin Yu on

Adhesion between soft matter is a universal mechanical problem in bio-engineering and bio-integration. The Johnson–Kendall–Roberts (JKR) method is widely used to measure the work of adhesion and work of separation between soft materials.

Conformability of a Thin Elastic Membrane Laminated on a Rigid Substrate With Corrugated Surface

Submitted by Shutao Qiao on

When laminating a thin elastic membrane on a substrate with surface roughness, three scenarios can happen: 1) fully conformed, i.e., the membrane completely follows the surface morphology of the substrate without any interfacial gap; 2) partially conformed; and 3) nonconformed, i.e., the membrane remains flat if gravity is not concerned.