contact mechanics

Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS 2014); held at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, February 3-5, 2014

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Fri, 09/20/2013 - 19:00

Dear Colleague:

Please see attached for the first announcement for Contact Mechanics International Symposium (CMIS 2014); the next conference following in a series of meetings gathering engineers, mathematicians, physical scientists, and others concerned with analytical, experimental and computational treatment of interface mechanics. Full details about coverage are described in the attached announcement; the meeting will be held at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 3-5, 2014.

Problem Modeling JKR contact using Abaqus

Submitted by diorusso on Tue, 09/10/2013 - 22:37

crack propagation analysis

JKR contact

Hello Everyone,

I have been working on solving contact problems relating to fibrillar adhesives over the past 3 yrs of my PhD work. In the past, I used Comsol FEM to model contact interactions by implementing the Dugdale-Barenblatt traction separation law at the contact interface.

Next CONTACT-course in december 2013

Submitted by Edwin Vollebregt on Mon, 09/02/2013 - 09:57

education

contact mechanics

software

Dear all,

On Tuesday December 3rd to Thursday December 5th, 2013, we will organise a course on rolling contact mechanics using the CONTACT software at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

The aims of the course are:

Frictional rolling contact model CONTACT version 13.1 released

Submitted by Edwin Vollebregt on Mon, 09/02/2013 - 09:52

Dear all,

Herewith I want to announce the release of the frictional rolling contact model CONTACT version 13.1.

The main changes with respect to earlier versions of the program are as follows:

Post-doc position at the TU Braunschweig within ERC StG "INTERFACES"

Submitted by Laura De Lorenzis on Sun, 06/30/2013 - 09:11

Isogeometric Analysis

multiphysics methods

One Post-Doc position is now available at the Institut für Angewandte Mechanik of the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, within the ERC Starting Researcher Grant "INTERFACES". The position is a full-time fixed-term position for 2 years with the possibility of renewal.

PhD and Post-Doc positions in Computational Mechanics at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany

Submitted by Laura De Lorenzis on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 09:28

multiphysics modeling

PhD and Post-Doc positions are now available at the Institut für Angewandte Mechanik of the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. Both are full-time fixed-term positions for 2 years with the possibility of renewal.

Solutions of contact problems using surface and gradient elasticity theories

Submitted by Xin-Lin Gao on Fri, 11/23/2012 - 16:01

research

elasticity

contact mechanics

These two papers have recently been published on-line in ZAMP:

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00033-012-0205-0

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00033-012-0273-1

PhD positions in Computational Mechanics at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy

Submitted by Laura De Lorenzis on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 06:46

computational mechanics

interface mechanics

contact mechanics

multiscale methods

Isogeometric Analysis

3 PhD positions are now available at the Department of Innovation Engineering at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy. Funding is provided by the European Research Council Starting Researcher Grant project "INTERFACES-Mechanical Modeling of Interfaces in Advanced Materials and Structures".

The successful applicant will work on topics related to computational methods for interface modeling, isogeometric analysis, and multiscale methods.

Applicants should possess the following qualifications/attributes:

ABAQUS Explicit - defining boundary conditions and imposed displacement on rigid bodies

Submitted by pirs on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 18:46

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Free Tags

Hello there,

I am currently trying to model a cold-formed steel beam experiment, where load is applied through displacement control. I thought using ABAQUS/Explicit and perform a quasi-static analysis would be a good idea.

However, I have found an error I have not yet been able to overcome, and the results are not as I expected.

Here's the warning message: