PhD tools: Google Scholar

As PhD candidates internet access to Journals is vital for broadening our knowledge on the topic. Personally, my first choice has always been GoogleScholar tool. Depending on your network settings search results proves to be the best and fastest -including direct links to full documents-.

One of many useful options is "Cite" option on search results page.

You can easily export citations for most common software. Whether you use Endnotes, Jabref, Papers or any other citation program, this website provides immense help for a researcher. For more export options click here.

Let's add some humor to it.

Gefeliciteerd Erik

Happy birthday to Prof. Erik Schlangen... As (rest of) PAT-ASR team we hope the best for you..

Happiest moment for the last 10 days

Since last week Monday, I have been busy with Triangulation of meshes in Lattice model. Thanks to help from Branko & Mladena, I have come long way. Trick is, you need to calibrate your mesh element radius to have a representable mesh (I know it sounds geek and boring- that's life of PhD). That requires running an Uni axial tensile test on your mesh and check whether calculated E modulus is same as your initial assumption. As all programming goes, have been struggling to pass 1st simulation step (so the solver writes the output file). Finally, after miserable frustrating days, program passed the first step and gave results. 

Now I need to calibrate 10 more meshes with various randomness.

A day in life of a PhD