Have you ever seen a structure subject to flutter instability?

Can flutter instability be connected to dry friction?

We provide positive answers to the above questions, watch the video at

http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/flutter.html

To learn more about the new features of Abaqus and Isight, and interact with your colleagues, be sure to attend one of the 20+SIMULIA Regional User Meetings (RUMs) coming up. There are 7 meeting locations in the US, 5 in Asia, and 9 in Europe.

Check out the worldwide schedule here:  http://www.simulia.com/events/rums.html

As part of the 12th Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics (PACAM XII) to be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad, from Jan. 2 to 6, 2012, it is our pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract to the Symposium “Multiscale modeling and simulation of complex materials and systems”.

This is the preprint of an article that will appear in the Journal of Computational Physics (DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.07.001).

A Completely Iterative Method for the Infinite Domain Electrostatic Problem with Nonlinear Dielectric Media

by Lun Yang and Kaushik Dayal, Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract

We welcome applications for a fully funded PhD position in the field of experimental mechanics and materials science. Further details in the attachment.

Prof. Rebecca Brannon and her team have created a wonderful page containing interesting information on aspects of plasticity, damage, and computational mechanics (particularly, the Material Point Method).

Check it out at 

 http://csm.mech.utah.edu/content/

-- Biswajit

This is the preprint of an article that will appear in Acta Materialia (DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2011.07.014)

Effect of Lattice Orientation, Surface Modulation, and Applied Fields on Free-Surface Domain Microstructure in Ferroelectrics

by Lun Yang and Kaushik Dayal, Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract