A postdoctoral fellowship is available in the Duke Computational Mechanics Laboratory, beginning in September of 2010 (with flexibility on timing).  Funding for the fellowship concerns research in the simulation of dynamic fracture of polycarbonate.  The ideal candidate will have experience in some combination of the following areas (in no particular order of importance):

I read this article today, perhaps other beginners like me can also get some benefit from this:

Title: Overview of constitutive laws, kinematics, homogenization and multiscale methods in crystal plasticity finite-element modeling: Theory, experiments, applications.  

Hi All,

A minisymposium on Meshfree and Particle Methods will be organized for the International

Conference on Computational Methods (ICCM) 2010. ICCM 2010 will be organized and hosted by

College of Mechanical & Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University during November 19th-21st, 2010 in

Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China. Please check the ICCM 2010 website

http://dmvb.hnu.cn/ICCM2010 for more information about the conference and the venue.

We present an application of ADINA FSI in the study of the human coughing mechanism. The aim of the study is to help surgeons to position tracheal implants effectively. Please see

http://www.adina.com/newsgH69.shtml

You can find many other examples of applications of ADINA in the analysis of multiphysics problems here:

http://www.adina.com/multiphysics.shtml

Hello Everyone

Can anybody suggest a good review article for the efforts in computational fatigue and any relevant books.

Thanks

Regards

As of 11 May 2010, the number of registered users of iMechanica exceeded 20,000 , the total number of posts is 8191, the total number of comments is 14557.  The growth of iMechanica community remains steady since its launch.



Founded in September 2006, iMechanica aims

A PhD position is available at Centre Henri Tudor (Luxembourg) and Cardiff University (UK) on the simulation of crack propagation with adaptive extended finite element methods.

Candidates from any country are eligible. 

Please contact me for details.

Stephane

A new section on applications has been added to the website on failure criteria.  Six examples of failure applications are given which span the range from very ductile to very brittle isotropic and homogeneous materials.  Summarizing two of the examples, first a very ductile polymer is examined wherein its tensile, compressive, and shear strengths are determined as influenced by a state of superimposed hydrostatic pressure. An interesting fallout from the example shows just how seriously in error the Mises criterion can be, even when applied to a ductile material.