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DIC course, 11-15 June 2018 in Philadelphia

Submitted by Fabrice Pierron on

The 6th edition of the intensive course on Digital Image Correlation (DIC) will take place on 11-15 Jne 2018 à Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA. The course is composed of a number of lectures, data processing sessions and labs. The number of participants is limited to 20 for maximal interaction with the teaching team. More information here.

The 7th edition of the International Conference on Fatigue of Composites (ICFC7)

Submitted by michele.zappal… on

The 7th edition of the International Conference on Fatigue of Composites is going to be held in Vicenza (Italy) from 4th to 6th of July 2018. The conference is organized by the Department of Management and Engineering at the University of Padova, under the patronage of the European Society for Composite Materials, the Committee on Composite Materials of the Japan Society of Material Science, the Italian Association for Stress Analysis and the Italian Group of Fracture.

Stress is defined as the quantity equal to ... what?

Submitted by Ajit R. Jadhav on

In introducing the very concept of the stress tensor to the beginning student, text-books always present only indirect relations involving the concept. Thus, you have the relations like "traction = (stress-transposed)(unit normal)" (i.e. Cauchy's formula, for uniform stress), or the relations for the coordinate transformations of the stress tensor, or the divergence theorem (for non-uniform stress). These are immediately followed or interspersed with alternative notations, and the rules for using them.

But what you never ever get to see, in text-books or references, is this: a *direct* definition of the stress tensor, i.e. an equation in which there is only the stress tensor on the left hand-side, and some expression involving some *other* quantities on right hand-side. Why? What possibly could be the conceptual and pedagogical advantages of giving a direct definition of this kind, and its physical meaning? I would like to ponder on these matters here, giving my answers to these and similar questions in the process.

Short Course on Enriched Finite Element Methods at WCCM in NY

Submitted by Angelo Simone on

We'd like to announce an upcoming short course in Enriched Finite Element Methods at the 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics (http://www.wccm2018.org/). The course will be held on Sunday 22nd July at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel.

More information can be found on the flyer and at the course page.

Armando Duarte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angelo Simone, University of Padova / Delft University of Technology

Fundamentals of Simpleware Training, Reading, UK, Feb 6th

Submitted by Simpleware on

This one-day intensive training course intends to give new and existing users sufficient knowledge of the basic functionality of Simpleware software for converting 3D image data (MRI, CT...) into mdoels for CAD, CAE, and 3D Prrinting applications. It will allow you to develop workflows based your areas of research and future projects.

Learn more about this training day.