Fellowships for outstanding post-doctoral fellows from China and India are available at the Laboratory for Mechanics of Soft Materials, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The fellowship funding period will begin in October 2015. The candidate shall be a citizen of China or India. Candidates who have Indian or Chinese citizenships and have completed their doctoral degrees in a leading institution outside of China or India are also eligible to apply for a fellowship.

PhD student in Metallurgies and Finite Element Analysis

• Last application date: 2015-01-08 

• Department:Department of Mechanical construction and production

• Contract type: Limited duration (4 years)

• Occupancy rate: 100%

• Vacancy type: Research staff

Dear ALL,

Which reading material/source that describes the good understanding of stress triaxiality?

What is the role of stress triaxiality for FE analyst?

I have read a lot of papers/articles but still have confusing me on the fundamental of stress triaxiality.

http://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/17879
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00652156

If you're interested in stochastic finite element analysis, you might like to know that we've just published a paper that reviews the "practical" application of the method. The paper first outlines the main methods of incorporating uncertainty into engineering computations. It then presents "practical" examples across a range of disciplines of where these methods have been used.

We hope that this paper is a good starting point for those looking to adopt stochastics in their work.

The Soft Materials Research Laboratory directed by Professor Qibing Pei in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles is an interdisciplinary research group developing synthetic polymers and nanocomposites for advanced electronics, electromechanical, and photonic devices. Current research activities include but not limited to dielectric elastomers for muscle-like actuation, bistable electroactive polymers for large-strain rigid-to-rigid actuation, and stretchable electronics.

We welcome applications for a post-doctoral position in the Multiscale Computational Mechanics Laboratory (MCML) at Vanderbilt University. MCML is a part of the interdisciplinary Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (MuMS) facility.

I am creating this blog entry to have my confusions about gradients, vectors, and deformation gradient, etc., straightened out once (and hopefully for all time!) ... My confusions got exposed (even to me) while commenting on a thread started by Prof. Suo here [^]. In particular, I realized my confusions after writing this comment [^] there.

Hi

I am simulating thermomechanical model in Abaqus. I am not able to get chip out. I have used shear deformation criterion. Is there any key step to achieve this?

Also I am facing problem with coupled thermomechanical CPE4RT element. I am using Dynamic explicit thermal displacement step. In this step I didn't find adiabatic heating option, Abaqus is giving me warning about it. What are the necessary inputs for this simulation.

Please answer if anybody knows about this.

The attached notes are written for a course on plasticity.  When I update the notes, I will post a link on my twitter account:  https://twitter.com/zhigangsuo.  

Rheology is the science of deformation.  This science poses a question for every material:  Given a history of stress, how do we predict the history of strain, or the other way around?