Several postdoc positions are available immediately at the University of Minnesota to work on the development of a variety of cutting edge multiscale methods and atomistic simulation techniques. The work will be done in close collaboration with a group of leaders in the field including Prof. Ellad Tadmor, Prof. Richard James, Prof. Mitchell Luskin and Prof. Ryan Elliott. For more information, visit www.multiscale.umn.edu or check out the attached announcement.
Postdoctoral position available at Princeton University to participate in a multi-disciplinary research project sponsored by the US Army Research Office (ARO/MURI) at Princeton and Harvard Universities on: Innovative Design of Multi-Functional Adaptive Structural Materials. The candidate will be involved in the Modeling of Hierarchically Porous Material Structures Optimized for Strength and Transport. The candidate must have a strong background in Finite Element Analysis (both solid and fluid), and in Topology Optimization.
Program for the 3rd International Conference on Mechanics of Biomaterials & Tissues now available at http://www.icmobt.elsevier.com/programme09.htm
Plenary and keynote speakers include:
Professor Julian Vincent, Professor of Biomimetics, Bath University, UK
-Stiffness and toughness of biological materials
I have posted the second edition of my book “Mechanics of Materials” online for free educational use. The book was reviewed and checked for accuracy by 30 faculty across the USA and was line edited by a professional editor.
The preface in the book describes the objectives and the design of the book, with details elaborated further in “Note to the Instructor”. The “Note to the Students” elaborates the many pedagogical features of the book. All these are in the file labeled “Table of content and front end material”.
Horacio Espinosa and I welcome the submission of new abstracts for a minisymposium on "Mechanics of Crystalline Nanostructures", to be held at the 2010 US National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM 2010), June 27-July 2 at Penn State University.
Hello, everyone
I am a little confused about the discrimination between softening, weakening and localization.
In my opinion, softening is against hardening, corresponding to the decrease of slope in the hardening curve.
weakening is for what?
Localization is about localized plastic flow.
localization is a phenomenon that explain the softening, so "localization" can not give help for better simulation result. Is that coreect?
Thanks for correcting the views above!
I am currently working on constictutive modelling of soft biological tissues, considering them as nonlinear viscoelastic materials. I am using the split form of energy density function i.e modelling separately the hyperelastc part and the visoelastic part. I am using Ogden formula for hyperelastic part and for the viscoelastic part, I am currently using the second and third invariants of stretch rate tensor.
dear all
is there any formaula or any theory by i can make a relation for the tangent and secent modules in the plastic region of the stress strain curve?....and also how to find Et and Es for the Alloy steel?.. if any body knows any thing than let me know soon..
warm regards
Asit Rathod
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To all outstanding researchers with less than 3 years of post-doctoral experience, this is a unique opportunity to secure a 5 year post-doc.
This will be highly competitive, and applicants must be of world-class quality.
Topics available in our group:
- multiscale (fracture) mechanics
- microstructurally-faithful modelling
- surgical simulation
- coupled moving boundary problems
- meshfree methods
- quantum simulations
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