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"Defects and Microstructure at the Nanoscale and Beyond," Mini-symposium at USNCCM-10, July 16-19, 2009

Submitted by Robin Selinger on

There will be a mini-symposium entitled "Defects and Microstructure at the Nanoscale and Beyond," at the USNCCM-10 conference in Columbus, OH, July 16 -19, 2009.  This topic is of keen interest to the I-Mechanica community and we hope many of you will join us there. Our goal is to bring together researchers from the mechanics, materials, and physics communities to cross-fertilize research on defect-mediated processes in microstructural evolution, with a focus on both hard and soft materials. 

UK Newton Post-Doc Fellowship in Computational Mechanics

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on

 

Dear All,



A new multi-million pound initiative to fund research collaborations and improve links between UK and overseas researchers has been launched.



The Newton International Fellowships aim to attract the most promising, early stage, post-doctoral researchers working overseas, who do not hold UK citizenship, in the fields of humanities, engineering, natural

and social sciences.



MSc+PhD position Fully Funded -- Massively parallel biomechanics simulation of brain surgery on HECToR

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on

High Performance Computing MSc+Ph.D. position available at the
University of Glasgow on Massively Parallel Brain Surgery Simulation
with the extended finite element method (XFEM and FleXFEM)  (University
of Glasgow) -- funding body is EPSRC.

One year MSc in HPC in Edinburgh (all costs covered by funding) + 3 year Ph.D.  and access to HecToR,
one of the world's largest super-computer, including training with
experts in massively parallel simulation (10,000+ processors).

The Paris equation

Submitted by raulito on
The  Paris equation should correctly be referred to as the ERDOGAN-PARIS equation, maybe some more names may be needed.
LEFM is a term bandied about in the text books, but very few texts  know how to define what it means and how it applies.
You can take my course.  What happened to the earlier posts about my course.
Anyone who contributes to my DORN-RAJNAK or HARPER DORN will be given credit.
 

Is the limit of stress intensity factors "1" when the crack length is close to "0"?

Submitted by Zhanqi Cheng on

I have read some papers about fracture mechanics of functionally graded materials. I find there are different results for the stress intensity factors when the crack length is close to "0" . In some papers the values of stress intensity factors are "1" when the crack length is close to "0" , but in other papers the values of stress intensity factors are not "1". I obtain the stress intensity factors is "1" when the length of crack is close to "0". I hope to get the explaination about the results.Thanks a lot.

Journal Club Forum for April 15th: Fracture of Ferroelectrics

Submitted by Chad Landis on

Ferroelectric materials have seen applications as actuators (the fuel injection system in the latest BMWs), sensors (naval sonar systems), and ferroelectric nonvolatile random access memories (FRAMs). For actuators and sensors it is the piezoelectric behavior of these materials that is exploited, while for FRAMs the ability of the material to “switch” polarization states is the essential feature for the application. 

PhD projects in computational fracture and computational/theoretical fluids at University of Melbourne

Submitted by Petar Liovic on

The Australian Mineral Science Research Institute (AMSRI) is a consortium of Australia's best scientists working in minerals industry-related fields. Research activities span the breadth of minerals processing, with major themes of the research being energy efficiency, frugal water use and efficient management of waste. The Mathematics program of AMSRI performs modelling and analysis research across multiple minerals processing areas, including comminution, flotation and waste treatment.