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Developing a new medical school at a new university in Kazakhstan

Nazarbayev University (NU) was dedicated in June 2010 by Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, with the mission of making the republic's 15-year-old capital, Astana, Eurasia's leading research and educational center. Each NU academic unit is paired with an international partner; instruction is in English. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSOM) was selected as NU's partner to develop the NU School of Medicine (NUSOM) based on a U.S. model. Combined with the six hospitals of National Medical Holding (NMH), also part of NU, and NU's Center for Life Sciences, NU plans to create Kazakhstan's first integrated academic health system

Modeling and Simulation of Miniature Piezoelectric Motors

The use of piezo materials is becoming common in both commercial and retail products. Motors designed using piezo materials as actuators are also being utilized where either space or magnetic materials are limited. This paper discusses the use of ABAQUS/Standard and ABAQUS/Explicit toward the development and production of small piezo motors. Analytical techniques are the only methods possible to determine motor design parameters and performance issues prior to prototype production and testing. The use of ABAQUS/Standard to solve baseline Eigenvalue extractions and transient dynamics for stator motion has made it possible to evaluate motor designs much quicker than physical evaluations. The use of the ''VUMAT'' subroutine in ABAQUS/Explicit has been used to create strains driven by the piezo effects, thus allowing for many thousands of cyclic loads to be applied to contacting 3D continuum structures. The use of viscous pressure techniques for near-perfect static loading under explicit dynamics will also be presented and discussed