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Events for December 12, 2007
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Meet USC (AM session)
Wed, Dec 12, 2007 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Meet USC (PM session)
Wed, Dec 12, 2007 @ 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please visit http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/visit/events/meet_usc/ to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshmen and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Uncertain Elasto-Plasticity
Wed, Dec 12, 2007 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Boris Jeremic, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, jeremic@ucdavis.eduAbstract:
Behavior of realistic materials is inherently uncertain. Two main sources of
such behavior are (a) the constitutive level uncertainties and (b) the uncertain
spatial variability of material.Presented in this talk is the method for simulating uncertain elastic-plastic
behavior. On the constitutive level, an Euler-Lagrange form of
Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov (FPK) equation is applied to the description of the
evolution of probability density function of stress response for (any) elastic
and/or elastic-plastic material model with random material properties. The FPK
approach does not suffer from the "closure problem" associated with perturbation
methods nor does it require repetitive use of deterministic elastic-plastic
simulations as associated with Monte Carlo technique. Furthermore, the FPK
approach transforms the nonlinear stochastic constitutive ordinary differential
equation into linear deterministic partial differential equation, which, even if
not amenable to analytical solution, greatly simplifies the numerical solution
process. On the finite element level, spatial variability of material properties
is modeled and simulated using Karhunen-Loeve expansions of input random fields
in eigen-modes of their covariance function and polynomial chaos expansion with
Galerkin method to represent the solution random field.Number of examples will be presented, illustrating methodology and main results,
some of which are quite surprising and can be seen, at first glance as
counter-intuitive.Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
