Warner Tjardus Koiter (1914-1997) and his 1945 thesis
Koiter's PhD thesis, dated 1945, gave the birth of post-buckling analysis, and quantified the notion of imperfection sensitivity. He wrote the thesis in Dutch. An excellent English translation is...
View ArticlePost-doctoral Position in Multi-scale and Multi-physics Modeling of...
Vin Crespi (Penn State physics) and I are looking for a post-doctoral student to continue a National Science Foundation supported project studying the use of multi-scale modeling methods for predicting...
View ArticleEffect of Surface Morphology on the Stability of Thin Nanostructures
We have recently studied the atomic scale structural stability of freestanding wavy gold (Au) nanofilms using molecular dynamics simulations. In recent years, wavy or patterned structurs have shown...
View ArticleSelf-organized podosomes and forces
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View ArticleThermoelastic Instability Analysis
Hi, I am new to iMechanica. I am also not sure whether this post is appropriate here or not. I was doing some instability analysis of heat transfer between two rods having a narrow gap in between them...
View ArticleA CRACKED BEAM FINITE ELEMENT FOR ROTATING SHAFT DYNAMICS AND STABILITY ANALYSIS
In this paper, a method for the construction of a cracked beam finite element is presented. The additional flexibility due to the cracks is identified from three-dimensional finite element...
View ArticleLecture Notes on Stability of Media and Structures
I wrote these notes about 10 years ago to supplement a course of lectures at Ecole Polytechnique. There might be errors in the notes, but I hope they can help you learn this fascinating subject of...
View ArticleWhen Newmark Misses!
Accurate Implicit Time Integration in Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis Using an effective time marching procedure is an important aspect in the implicit finite element analysis of...
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Electromechanical stability in charge-controlled dielectric elastomer actuation
Deformation of dielectric elastomer under a voltage load is large but is limited by the pull-in instability. A recent experiment showed that by spraying charges on the dielectric, a large...
View Article4th International Conference "Nonlinear Dynamics - 2013" , Sevastopol,...
Dear Colleagues,The Organizing Committee of the 4th conference ND-2013 is pleased to invite you to participate at the Nonlinear Dynamics Conference to be held from 19 until 22 June, 2013 in Sevastopol...
View ArticleNonlinear Dynamics - 2013. Registration deadline extended till January 28th
Dear Colleagues, The new deadline for abstract (plain text, 400 word limit) submission is now January 28, 2013. The 4th conference "Nonlinear Dynamics -2013" will be held from 19 until 22 June, 2013...
View ArticleNonconservative Stability Problems of Modern Physics
http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/179816 This work gives a complete overview on the subject of nonconservative stability from the modern point of view. Relevant mathematical concepts are...
View ArticleNew Ebook on Elastic Solids at Amazon
This treatise provides a broad overview of the definitions of fundamental quantities and methods of analysis for the use of solid materials in structural components. The presentation is limited to the...
View ArticleCosmic turbulences result in star and black hole formation
Just how stars and black holes in the Universe are able to form from rotating matter is one of the big questions of astrophysics. What we do know is that magnetic fields figure prominently into the...
View ArticleNonlinear Physical Systems: Spectral Analysis, Stability and Bifurcations
Bringing together 18 chapters written by leading experts in dynamical systems, operator theory, partial differential equations, and solid- and fluid mechanics, this book presents state-of-the-art...
View ArticleRobust Stability at the Swallowtail Singularity
Consider the set of monic fourth-order real polynomials transformed so that the constant term is one. In the three-dimensional space of the coefficients describing this set, the domain of asymptotic...
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