Seminar Series - 1997-1998 Seminars

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Dislocation Barriers and Plastic Flow of Metals: Experimental Observation and Computation, Prof. Sia Nemat-Nasser, Center for Excellence for Advanced Materials, Dept. of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, University of California - San Diego.  Friday, May 29, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 1:30 p.m.

The Stress Field Due to Discrete and Continuously Distributed Dislocations in Anisotropic Bicrystal, Yiming Yu,  Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.    M.S. Advisor:  Dr. M. S. Wu.  Tuesday, April 21, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Finite Element Analysis of Plates, Deepu S. Joseph,  Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  M.S. Advisor:  Dr.  Reinhard Piltner.  Tuesday, April 21, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

T as a Static/Fatigue/Dynamic Crack Growth Parameter, Prof. Albert S. Kobayashi, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington.  Wednesday, April 15, 1998.   W128 Nebraska Hall, 2:00 p.m.

Computational Topological Investigations and Constitutive Modeling of Bimodal Elastomer Systems,   Paris R. von Lockette, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Tuesday, April 14, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Acoustic Emission Study of Damage Evolution in CFRP Laminates Based on Waveform Analysis, Jie Qian, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  M.S. Advisor:  Dr. Yuris Dzenis.  Tuesday, April 7, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Direct Analysis of Interface Problems Using Virtual Dislocation Models and Integral Equations, Haitao Zhang, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  Ph.D.  Advisor:  Dr. M.S. Wu.  Tuesday, April 7, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Polycrystal Generation and Analysis, Jingchun Guo, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.   M.S.  Advisor:  Dr. M.S. Wu.  Tuesday, April 7, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Modeling of a Charged Jet in Electrospinning Process, Alexander Spivak, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  Ph.D.   Advisor:  Dr. Yuris Dzenis.  Tuesday, March 31, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Thickness Vibration of Rotating Piezoelectric Plates, Huiyu Fang, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  Ph.D.  Advisor:   Dr. Qing Jiang, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California - Riverside.  Tuesday, March 31, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Digital Prototyping - A Successful Market Strategy, Wei Wang, Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, UNL.  M.S.  Advisor:  Dr. Reinhard Piltner.  Tuesday, March 31, 1998. W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

A Treatment of Internally Constrained Elastic-Plastic Material, Eveline Baesu, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California - Berkeley.  Tuesday, March 17, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

The Effect of Thermoforming on the Tensile Strength and Fatigue Properties of Unidirectional Discontinuous Aligned Fiber Composites, Professor Dr.-Ing. Jens Schuster, Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern, Site Pirmasens, Pirmasens 66955, Germany.   Tuesday, February 24, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Fibre-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite Osteosynthesis Implants with Variable Mechanical Properties for Better Treatment of Bone Fractures and Fiber Reinforced Profiles Produced by Thermoplastic Pultrusion, Georg Bechtold, Institut fur Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany.  Tuesday, February 17, 1998.  W128 Nebraska Hall, 3:30 p.m.

Adiabatic Shear Bands in Thermoviscoplastic Materials, Prof. Romesh C. Batra, Dept. of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.  Monday, November 24, 1997.  306 Bancroft Hall, 3:30 p.m.