Registration now open for the 6th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives
Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets, Switzerland 11-15 September 2011
For more information, go to www.tc4pca.elsevier.com
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Siemens US Intern Opportunity in Fracture Mechanics
Siemens Corporate Research (SCR), a division of Siemens Corporation, located in Princeton, New Jersey (USA) is Siemens' largest research center outside of Europe. SCR excels in transferring academic research into innovative products, and works in close collaboration with clinical and industrial partners. With more than 250 scientists, engineers, and technical experts, the company helps its customers and strategic partners grow their businesses in the fields of healthcare, automation, production, energy, industry, information and communications.
Internship available in FEA of crack growth
Title: Structural FEA Intern
Employer: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
Location: Sugar Land, TX, USA
Starting Date: 01/01/2011
Two Ph.D. positions are open at the University of Brescia, Italy
The group of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at the University of
Brescia is seeking two candidates for Ph.D. positions. The appointment
is starting on January 1st 2011, application deadline Sept. 15th 2010.
The research topics involve: computational dynamics of solids with
reference to ground motion simulation due to seismic input, multiscale
computational fracture mechanics and discrete dislocation mechanics.
Interested applicants are welcome to send a resume to
Two PhD studentships in computational fracture mechanics at the University of Glasgow
There are two PhD studentships available at the University of Glasgow in the area of computational fracture mechanics of concrete.
The topics are multiscale modelling of corrosion induced cracking and meso-mechanically motivated nonlocal models for fracture.
Please visit my webpage at http://www.civil.gla.ac.uk/~grassl for more information.
All the best,
Peter Grassl
Sequence loads
Hi everybody
I want to ask you regarding the general pattern of diagram da/dn Vs. DeltaK(stress intensity factor) for Variable amplitude loading? Could we share our knowleadge in this case?
Regards,
Subset Splitting Digital Image Correlation (SSDIC)
Following our recent article on this new method, we are making our Matlab routines available. The package contains standard DIC, SSDIC, plus a few extras. More info here
“Subset Splitting Digital Image Correlation” (SSDIC) is based on DIC, but in addition SSDIC can capture displacement discontinuities near shear bands or cracks, where standard DIC fails.
Survey on XFEM: is XFEM good at characterizing Failure rather than Fracture?
Would like to hear your expertise/user/non-expert/sceptic comments on XFEM. Here are some of the challenges. Would like to hear your relections.
1. Can XFEM be utilized in characterizing Failure rather than Fracture?
2. What sort of challenges XFEM still have with respect to Fracture Mechanics?
3. How the Fracture mechanics benefit the industry, from the perspective of strcutural integrity?
4. Failue investigations vs. Fracture investigations: benefit to industry?
5. Academist vs Engineer: Perspective on XFEM
Interfacial Fracture
These notes belong to a course on fracture mechanics
A body consists of two materials bonded at an interface. On the interface there is a crack. The body is subject to a load, causing the two faces of the crack to open and slide relative to each other. When the load reaches a critical level, the crack either extends along the interface, or kinks out of the interface.