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Solid Mechanics Professorship at Imperial College London

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Professorship in the Mechanics of Materials Division

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Imperial College London

Imperial College is one of Europe's leading teaching and research institutions and the Department of Mechanical Engineering had the highest possible rating in the last Research Assessment Exercise.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 31: Emerging Methods To Understand Mechanical Behavior at TMS Annual Meeting, March 9-13 2008

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You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to the symposium on “Emerging Methods To Understand Mechanical Behavior” at 2008 TMS annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 9-13, 2008.  

coupling between plasticity and damage

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Hello all,

 I am Nilesh and doing
study of Continuum damage mechanics, in that context, I have some doubt s

     Can anyone tell
me?

1. As in plasticity we have yield surface  and in damage we have damage surface  but in this case,  does damage surface working same ( for
isotropic and kinematics damage???? ) Like in isotropic and kinematic
hardening??? I mean expansion and movement for isotropic and kinematic damage
case???

applications of maths in the study of fractured surfaces

Submitted by mageru on

Hello everybody,

Please recommand me bibliography or the links on the WEB concerning the applications of different maths in the study of fractured surfaces. Thank you very much. In my country, Romania this domain is not know very well. Best regards from Romania!

Why do people become registered users of iMechanica?

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The number of registered users of iMechanica is approaching 3000.  This sustained growth has been surprising to many, considering that iMechanica was launched less than a year ago, in September 2006, that iMechanica uses an off-the-shelf open-source software, Drupal, and that everyone can read everything without registration.  Why have so many people registered?  There might be many reasons, such as

Sih's Strain Energy Density Approach in Fracture - why is it not very popular?

Submitted by yoursdhruly on

Most fracture classes and texts focus on the following different approaches: Griffith's energy approach, Irwin's stress intensity factor approach, the Barenblatt-Dugdale strip yield model (and subsequently, cohesive zone modeling) and Rice's J-Integral approach. As a graduate student studying fracture mechanics, I have often wondered why there seems to be very little discussion in the community with regard to Sih's strain energy density approach. Are there any fundamental limitations to the approach or are there "other" reasons behind this? Your thoughts are appreciated.