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Cracks found at reactor at Hunterston B nuclear power station
Perhaps some of those on this site have seen the news article on the BBC website yesterday about cracks appearing in the reactor at the Hunterston B nuclear power station. As the article states, cracking in the graphite bricks is predicted and the regulators are happy that the reactor is safe to operate.
8th International Congress of Croatian Society of Mechanics – Abstract Submission Deadline Approaching
For the 8th time, Croatian Society of Mechanics is organizing its international congress, which will be this time held in Opatija, Croatia, from 29 September to 2 October 2015. International Congress of the Croatian Society of Mechanics is triennial meeting established for the mutual exchange of scientific and technical information in the domain of Mechanics with a focus not only to the Central Europe but also beyond this region.
Faculty Position in Mechanical Engineering at MIT
The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks candidates for faculty positions starting in September 2015. Appointment will be at the assistant or untenured associate professor level.
Biaxial tissue tester
I am a Research Assistant at St. Mary's University and my professor is interested in BUYING a USED biaxial tissue tester. If you have one please contact me so I can let him know.
-Luke Keller
Accelerated wear tester
I am a Research Assistant at St. Mary's University and my professor is interested in BUYING a USED Accelerated wear tester or the software that comes with it. If you have one please contact me so I can let him know.
-Luke Keller
Post-doctoral position in Nanomechanics at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
NTNU Nanomechanical Lab at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, offers a full-time 3-year post-doctoral position in nanomechanics. Post-doctoral salary 482500 NOK / year.
Recruitment of a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Dynamic Interface Modelling and Simulation in Material Forming
The main research topic of this position is computational mechanics with a particular interest
to the modeling and the simulation of the interfaces dynamics. The candidate will join a research
team and will participate to several PhDs, engineer, master, and post master students supervision
while developing his/her own research topics. He or she will be in charge of courses dealing with
computational mechanics and numerical simulation of physical phenomena. The candidate will be
Arc length method - Implementation Issues
Hi all,
i am doing a material nonlinear problem. I have used NR , which is giving good results till near 'limit point' and after that its giving peaks and troughs. From the literature I got to know that I should use arc length method (ALM) instead of NR for strain softening problems. I am using MATLAB
1) Is there any existing code module for Arc length method which can be directly incorporated in my FE code? In MATLAB central there is a code but its usable only when we have the analytical expressions.
Problem relating to Contact Pressure in ABAQUS Subroutine
I have already obtained the contact pressure (CPRESS) in the ABAQUS model.
NOW, I want to introduce a subroutine in ABAQUS which enables setting the contact pressure as input information, since contact pressue is the intial condition for another model which will incorporate with the existing model. I wonder if anyone can provide some suggestions on which subroutine can read the CPRESS (CSTRESS) as input information.
Many thanks!