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A (Possibly Free) Primer on the Finite Element Method

Submitted by oliver oreilly on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 16:05

For those of you interested in a terse introductory guide to the Finite Element Method, you might find the latest book by my colleague at U.C. Berkeley, Tarek Zohdi, to be helpful:

Extremely Curved Cracks

Submitted by Ettore Barbieri on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 11:05

bioinspired materials

Extreme Mechanics

The word "extreme" seems to be "trending" a lot these days, see the recent discussions on the new journal Extreme Mechanics Letters.

My collaborator Ruben Sevilla at Swansea and I were interested in very curved crack paths that develop in nature and have been replicated experimentally in thin films attached to elastic substrates.

This call was closed

Submitted by jenda_z on Tue, 09/02/2014 - 08:57

job

Journal Club Theme of September 2014: Numerical modeling of thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling processes in porous media

Submitted by WaiChing Sun on Mon, 09/01/2014 - 15:14

research

poromechanics

stabilized finite element

operator-splitting

thermo-hydro-mechanics

length scale

bifurcation

Thermo-hydro-mechanics (THM) is a branch of mechanics aimed to predict how deformable porous media behave, while heat transfer and fluid transport simultaneously occur in the pores filled by liquid and/or gas. Understanding these multi-physical responses is important for a wide spectrum of modern engineering applications, such as tissue scaffolding, geothermal heating, mineral exploration and mining, hydraulic fracture, energy piles, tunneling with frozen soil and nuclear waste storage and management.

Determination of the elastic properties of rabbit vocal fold tissue using uniaxial tensile testing and a tailored finite element model

Submitted by Neda Latifi on Mon, 09/01/2014 - 13:14

research

http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1PcEa6EHNeGWdB

Highlights:

Uniaxial tensile testing of rabbit vocal fold tissue.
Investigating the role of specimen shape on tensile testing of vocal fold tissue.
Development of a shape-specific finite element model to estimate elastic modulus.
Comparison of elastic moduli from shape-specific and generic-shape models.