You are invited to present your research work on the mechanical behavior of nanocomposite materials (Nov. 13-19, 2009 in Florida, close to Disney World). This topic will be focused on systematic mechanics experiments, modeling and simulations to solve new challenging mechanics problems such the effect of nanofiller agglomeration on the stiffness and strength reduction; interfacial stress transferring and interface strength evaluation at the nanoscale.  Deadline for abstract submission is March 17, 2009.

Stop Trying To Get Tenure and Start Trying To Enjoy Yourself

One of my junior colleagues forwarded the above article to me, and I read with interest. I think it could also resonate the interest of many people here in iMechanica. I welcome your comments, especially from our been-there done-that tenured colleagues.

From Dr John-Paul Latham 

Dear colleague

Chair in Computational Mechanics

School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering

Closing date: 17/04/2009

VipIMAGE 2009 - II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING, October 14-16, Porto, Portugal  - www.fe.up.pt/vipimage

Dear Colleague,

We are glad to announce the International Conference VipIMAGE 2009 - II ECCOMAS THEMATIC CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL VISION AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING will be held in the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, on October 14-16, 2009.

I am doing an impact analysis in LS-Dyna . When I include failure strain data  I am not able to get the energy balance in GLSTAT . So I tracked it using MATSUM . But there is huge difference in the energy input and energy output. SO I ran the same without failurestrains. Here I got the energy balance. Can somebody let me know whether there is some issue in my postprocessing the results while using failure strain?

Within the



7th Research Framework Programme of the EU (FP7),

The project "Macro, Micro and Nano Aspects of Machining - MAMINA"

offers a three-year PhD project

named

"Finite Element Simulation of the Cutting Process"

at the Institut für Werkstoffe, Technische Universität Braunschweig.





Within the PhD-project Finite Element Simulation of the Cutting

Process (ESR 2) the cutting process will be simulated using finite

elements. Different models will be developed and the material