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Most cited papers and H-factor of some mechanics journals -- IJSS

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on
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journal rankings
innovative ranking
most cited papers

IMPORTANT UPDATE JULY 18

The full list of journals ranked by H index

It is possible to rank journals equally as authors, using e.g. the Harzing Publish or Perish sofware based on Google Scholar. I did the excercise for IJSS. It turns out the H-index is 78 (slightly higher than even the best authors in solid mechanics, but not stellar).  In the most highlycited papers, we find good names, but not stellar papers.

The results may be affected by the limitations of the software.

Mesoscopic model for mechanical characterization of protein materials

Submitted by Kilho Eom on
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elastic network model
mesoscopic model
protein crystal
Go potential
mechanical property
structure-property relationship

We consider the mesoscopic model of protein materials composed of protein crystals with given space group for understanding the mechanical properties of protein materials with respect to their structures. This preprint was accepted for publication at Journal of Computational Chemistry.

Entropy production on a single trajectory of the small system

Submitted by Joseph X. Zhou on
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entropy
molecular machine
nonequilibrium

The following PowerPoint file is from the talk which I gave in my research group recently. It is also my understanding and reading notes from a serial of papers by Prof. Udo Seifert, in which he generalized the entropy production on a single trajectory of the small system such as a molecular machine. It mainly addresses three questions:

Puzzle: What caused this failure?

Submitted by Biswajit Banerjee on
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failure

Here's a puzzle for our readers.  The following image is of the surface of a failed joint followed by a picture of the joint (not the same one but a similar one) before joining.  What material is it? What caused the failure?  All manner of speculation is welcome.



Failed joint



Unfailed joint

How to add a residual stress field as initial condition for ABAQUS

Submitted by Hiton Zhang on
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I am trying to construct the existing residual stress and strain field, which has been obtained in the previous themal-elastic-plastic analysis in a structure into Abaqus V.6.5 so that the influence of post heat treatment and restrain conditions on the distortion can be analyzed. I tried to use INITIAL CONDITIONS: TYPE=TEMPERATURE, FILE=filename...to add the temperature field, but I don't know how I can add the residual stress field as the initial coniditon. Does anyone know how to do this ?!!.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best regards

We need a travelling long distance microscope for measurement of crack length

Submitted by kaslantas on
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Hi

I am looking for a travelling long distance microscope for measurement of crack length. I will use this microscope on Instron fatigue test machine. I found some long distance microscopes on the web. But they are not appropriate for us. I attached a figure showing the travelling microscope that I would like to buy.

Do you have any suggestion about it? Where can I find it?

Thanks 

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