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ASCE announced the winners of five of its prestigious Society awards administered by its Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI):

2015 Maurice A. Biot Medal: Emmanuel Detournay, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, University of Minnesota

2015 George Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal: Billie F. Spencer, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2015 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal: Zdeněk P. Bažant, Ph.D., S.E., NAE, NAS, F.EMI, Hon.M.ASCE, Northwestern University

Hello everyone,

I am working with Abaqus and trying to model a problem using pore-pressure cohesive elements but I have a hard time on the converging side of it. I was looking at the articles and Abaqus Documentation and I found viscous regularization az a method to help. Actually I found the papers that firstly introduced this method but I cannot get it very well and I was looking forward to see if anyone can help.

Hello iMechanica,

I am wondering if it is possible to perform the non-linear analyses (including large rotations) by laminated theories such as First order Shear Deformation Theory (FSDT) or higher orders and so on. Normally, those theories are valid for moderate rotations but: does anybody know if there is any modification to extend it for large rotations?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

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I'm a 2nd year student of mechanical engineering. I want to know about different softwares I'll  be expected in the field to know about. Want some suggestions. Some guy told me about ProE will this be a good one for modelling?

Hello Everyone, 
I am using ANSYS Workbench (Static Structural). I need to update the coordinates of the nodes, after each simulation.The new coordinate conditionally depends on the stress tensor value of the previous simulation. If anyone have idea how can I solve this problem please help me out....

Thanks!