One postdoc and several PhD student positions are available at Arizona State University for fall 2012. Research background in at least one of the following areas is preferred.
1. Fatigue and fracture of materials and structures
2. Computational mechanics and micromechanics
3. Damage detection for composite materials
We have an equipment and technology for determination of residual stresses. They are based on the hole-drilling method and electron speckle
interferometry (ESPI-HD method).
I am writing to let you know the release of VAMUCH 3.0, the 3rd version of our general-purpose micromechanics code. The main new features are:
AnalySwift, LLC, a leading provider of efficient high-fidelity modeling software for aerospace and energy composites and other advanced materials, announced today the release of VABS 3.6. This is the latest version of VABS, which is the tool of choice for efficient and accurate modeling of composite slender structures such as wind turbine blades, helicopter rotor blades, high aspect ratio wings, composite bridges, and other slender structural components.
I am co-organizing a mini-symposium on « Computational damage mechanics of composite materials » in the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM 2012) with Dr. Gilles Lubineau at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Dr. Glaucio H. Paulino at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
WORKSHOP: Image-based Simulation for Biomechanics, Materials Applications, and Reverse Engineering
This workshop is aimed at those interested in 3D reconstruction from radiology images, and in using 3D image data (as obtained from CT, Micro-CT, MRI and Ultrasound) to generate Rapid Prototyping, CAD, and Finite Element models.
Participants will learn:
• how to generate computer models from your 3D image data
• how to import and position CAD files in the image data
Dear all,
Iam working in composite orthotropic laminates consists of many plies having different material properties in each ply. How to determine or calculate the flexural rigidity (D) of this laminate by transforming these composite into an isotropic model. The idea is that flexural rigidity of the orthotropic laminate is being smeared into a single isotropic formulation.
For instance: if I have three plies:
Ply1 : D1x and D1y
Ply2: D2x and D2y
Ply3: D3x and D3y
Hi there! I am really new to Abaqus and I need to model a composite
laminated crash cone under impact to a flat solid wall (analytical
surface is used). I modelled a cone with a layers of conventional shell
elements with hashin failure criteria and surface-based cohesive
behaviour as interaction between layers representing the interface of
composite laminates. The model runs successfully but once I checked the
energy balance, the damage dissipation energy from the cohesive, it
turned out to be NEGATIVE (I think this is wrong).
Hi everyone,
does anyone know publications dealing with the coupled thermo-structural analysis (direct method) of CFRP using ANSYS?
Please find enclosed a PhD position at Ecole des Mines de Douai (France)
Regards
Stephane PANIER
