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Hi everybody

I am translating a technical French paper. what can i use as the english equivalent of "pouvoir comburivore"? 

Thanks in advance

Dear eveyone,

I need to know the formula or expression to calculate the flexural rigidity (D) of RC Slab reiforced with steel bars. I know that for plain concrete, D can be taken as Et3/12(1-v2). However, I have no idea what is D when steel bars are added to slab. I really appreciate for any kind help. Thanks

Hellow,everyone here:
      Anyone knows  the fatigue limit and the long-crack threshold of Aluminum 2024-T3?Thanks very much.

Dear all,

Folks,

I'm embarking on a project to build a modified copy of a DIY 3D printer.  See http://reprap.org/wiki/WebHome to get a rough idea.  In my case, I have my own lathe and milling machine, so I can fabricate more substantial components, e.g., by machining aluminum.  I also have larger stepper motors, some 3/8" precision rod and linear bearings that I can use. 

I need to model viscoelastic behavior of polymer. I have storage modulus and loss modulus data as a function of temperature. I have found to determine the Prony series coefficients Ansys need shear and bulk modulus as a function of time-temperature. Does it mean complex shear moduls which can be calculated from storage and loss modulus. Can anyone advise me how I can use my data to calculate Prony series coefficients using Ansys?

A number of 3 year PhD-Student positions in the areas of mechanical engineering, process engineering and applied mathematics is available in the Post-Graduate School "Micro-Macro-Interactions in Structured Media and Particle Systems", Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany.

Further information can be found at  http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/gkmm/free-position-new-gk.htm

A recent discussion at iMechanica following my last post here [^] leads to this post. The context of that discussion is assumed here.

I present here three sample problems, thought of almost at random, just to see how the suggestions made by Jaydeep in the above post work out.

PRL 104, 215503 (2010)

Hi All

Is there any research about  interfacial adhesion of  transferrable monolayers and substrates ? I found it's quite different from the rough surface model, because the monolayer is flexible enough to match the roughness of surface. Can one determine the separation value from the different roughness of pure substrate and substrate with a monolayer ?

Can someone give me some clue ? Thanks a lot!

Hello,

Is there anyone out there that can suggest a suitable subroutine in abaqus for modeling anisotropy. I know about the potential option in abaqus CAE that uses hill`s criteria to define different yield ratios in different directions but the aluminum alloy i`m working with is almost isotrop at yield limit but strongly anisotrop at ultimate tensile stress and in plastic strain . So i need to use a subroutine that takes all these properties into considration.

I appreciate any help

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 Ali Khajehgani

who  can tell me more about the critical thickness theory ?I will be very excited if you   can introduce some reference to me.I know that critical thickness theory is solved rigorously and ursed to validated a useful approximation which is combined with slip distance theory modified for a finite structure size . (physical life review letters :elastic limit and strain hardening of thin wires in torsion)

At the stage of NPP civil structure design for determination of stress-strain state (SSS) at static and dynamic loading ABAQUS is widely used. Hereto the floor response spectra are determined for calculation of loadings on the equipment at special dynamic impacts (seismic, air shock wave, aircraft crash). In case if the obtained characteristics of SSS or spectral accelerations exceed maximum permissible values, designers take actions on strengthening the corresponding structural components.

To the best of my knowledge, the two momentum conservation principles, namely, the conservation of linear- and angular-momentum, operate completely independent of each other. For an isolated object, there is no possibility of conversion of one form of momentum to the other.

The autovibrations of the bridge over Volga river in the city of Volgograd(Russia) were filmed (not by me) today on 05/21/2010. The amplitude reachedabout 1 m. The bridge opening was just six months ago...

Apparently, either the bridge frame drag was too high or torsional stiffness / damping too low.

 Hello,

 I have the following problem:

I want to implement a hyperelastic material model with a damage function (like the pseudo-elasticity of Ogden) by using a UMAT in Abaqus/Standard.

For this, in the first step I try to implement the damage of Ogden, which already exist in Abaqus/Standard.

But I don't know in which way I build the tangent stiffness matrix for this case (nonlinear and dependent of the history)

Do anywhere know a good literature in order to read and understand this issue?