Please take notice of the 

I finished the grad course on Mechanics of Soft Materials. It took 14 weeks with 2 academic hours per week and it covered the following topics: 1 Tensors 2 Kinematics 3 Balance laws 4 Isotropic elasticity 5 Anisotropic elasticity 6 Viscoelasticity 7 Chemo-mechanical coupling 8 Electro-mechanical coupling.

I attach the class notes and I will be grateful for the remarks, corrections, and criticism from iMechanicians.

A Summer School on Fracture will be held at the Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, in Cargese, from June 7 to June 18, 2010. This is jointly organized by Elisabeth Bouchaud, CEA Saclay and Krishnaswamy Ravi-Chandar, University of Texas at Austin. Details of the School can be found at http://www.ae.utexas.edu/SummerSchoolFracture/ 

Hi,

I am trying to do flutter analysis for a wing using fluid structure interaction technique. I know that I need to do simultaneous coupling but couldn't figure out how to do it. Can anyone here give some more detail guide on how I should do it. I am using ANSYS and ANSYS CFX. There is tutorial that come with the software but it is not about flutter analysis.

Thanks,

Freddie

hi i am doing my PG project on plate buckling analysis using abaqus but i struck in initial stage.. to do so please help me...

hi everyone,

i am doing my masters in offshore structures, as part of my thesis work i am  doing fatigue analysis of offshore tubular joints. So , i have modeled the typical joints( T joint, K joint and Y joint) in ansys, now i have to model the cracks to find stress intensity factors, then i ahve to estimate fatigue life.

 Can anybody pls tell me how to model the crack in Ansys classic, if u have any tutorials or examples please send me.

my mail-id nareshphilics@gmail.com

thanking you all 

Hi,

I'm an Engineer and a Ph.D. student in Applied Maths, working in the field of Nonlinear Finite Elements for Elasticity. I often think about my future career since, by now, I have a strong experience with coding FE in C++/Matlab/Mathematica, but no clue whatsoever about commercial black-box softwares for FEA. I'm worried about this, since most of the job vacancies from the industry (I'm not interested in pursuing the Academic career) seem to require only experience with a specific software and application, and not to directly code FE.

I  need composite pressur vessel analysis, solution manual /procedure

Hi,

I am doing some test on the fracture toughness.

I am wondering if in Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics, Fracture toughness of the material is equal to fracture energy or not?

Can anybody send me an naswer,

Thank you,

Manooir

Hi all.........

               I am working on Sloshing problem. I was going through
one journal on Sloshing. Here in the problem FEM and BEM are both
combined and applied. Liquid in cylindrical tank is discretized using
FEM. And to evaluate the sloshing pressure and displacement BEM is
applied. In BEM only those nodes which are on the surface(free surface
and surface of liquid in contact with walls of cylinder) are
considered. For dynamic analysis of this problem one needs to calculate
free surface mass matrix and surface stiffness matrix. The matrix is
given as follows:

dear Friend

I am comparing italian universities with Russian ones with US and with Cuban ones. Then I need some figures.

I have been able for example to find that there are about 50% of students-workers in Russia, what about US?
I mean full time workers, not just part time.

But I need to know more about these questions:-
1) how did the number of students in the last 10 years vary?  Increased?
2) how many students are doing economics or management - related subjects?
3) how many students exit the university system before graduation,
failing to complete the cycle?
4) how many students complete the cycle in retard?

Hi Everyone,

 I'm a M.Sc. student of mechanical engineering. my thesis is fatigue crack closure simulation with interface element. I don't know how start with interface (cohesive) element. I need some fundamental text on interface element.

If anybody knows about these topics, I would appreciate for helping me.

Most thanks.

M. Malekan

Dear All,

 I am trying to use abaqus for simulation of Porous media.

I have some question:

1- How can I model a simple 2D poroelastic  plate by ABAQUS?

2- How can I compare results with conventional Biot parameters in Poroelasticity?

Best regards,

I’ve just come back from a Winter School on Dielectric Elastomer Transducers, held at Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, 10-16 January 2010.  Lectures were given by various people, covering the theory of electromechanical interaction, design of devices, development of materials, and technologies of manufacturing.  I was asked to give three lectures on the theory.  I attach the slides of my lectures.

NSF Summer Institute Short Course on

Mechanics of Soft Materials

Co-sponsored by
The Intrenational Union of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) and
The US National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (US/NCTAM)

Organizers: Yonggang Huang and Wing Kim Liu, Northwestern University

Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, 60201
Dates: May 10 (Monday) morning to May 12 (Wednesday) morning 2010

Course Website
http://www.tam.northwestern.edu/summerinstitute/_links2/courses4.htm

Hi everyone,

I am quite new in ANSYS Classic and now I had to realize a serious problem. After building a steel frame from beam4 elements I tried to define pressure on beams.

I can not find the direction of the pressure. It could work in or perpendicular to the plane of the frame (for example).

Could anybody help me, how to define the direction?

Dear All,

 I am confusing about the two methods:

 1. Stress function based method

2. Displacement based method

to solve the mechanics problem.

What is the main difference between them. In what circumstances the first/second method is available. 

And how the second method related with FEM.

Thanks. 

I want to try analyze cracked pipe based on API 579 fro my study. Is there anyone who have study case about cracked Pipe? Please send it to my email elang259@yahoo.com

It is well known thatdislocations in FCC metals are composed of partial dislocations separated bystacking faults.  When consideringthe reactions of dislocations with each other, such as in DD simulations, it is necessary to determine therelative positions of the partials in order to correctly describe theconfigurations that are created in the reactions.  Here we describe a geometric method for correctly determiningthe relative positions of the partials. The results we obtain can also be found by applying an axiom, or rule,given in the book by Hirth and Lothe. At the end of this tutorial we describe this axiom and apply it to someof the problems we have discussed. Our hope is that the geometric method we describe will give readers anintuitive sense of the geometry of partial dislocations and confidence in usingthe Hirth/Lothe axiom.

Dear All

I want to knnow what is the Strain VAlues at the SA-387(or 11/4 Cr 1/2 Mo Ni Si) plate at 940'F and in creep RAnge at time of 1000000 Hrs of loading...how to find Strain Values at SAme TEmp & Time and Diff loading of mtrls like 10,100, 1000 and So on..

Please Help...

Regards

Asit Rathod

Hello,

is there anybody know how i can export a model from abaqus to ansys?

thank you

best regards,

Hi Everyone,

 I would like to measure the residual stress imposed pattern through thickness of the plate by forming process (bending). Is it possible?

 I came to know that residual stress measurement through HOLE DRILLING METHOD offers only on the surface. That too, applicable only when residual stress imposed is uniform through thickness (like shot blasting process). If any one came across the experience of residual stress measurement, please throw some light in this regard.

 Thanks in advance

 M Gopalakrishnan

Hello All//

I am always confuing on that Stress is a point Function..and not Seen Physically Than Stress is a material Property or Material Behaviour?

Waiting For Answer..

Thanks..

My research area is modeling of creep in MMC. I am trying to use Abaqus for this purpose but I am unable to find any tutorial that can provide me some help that how to use creep module provided in Abaqus. Will any body can help me by providing some tutorial related to that topic. It will be highly apprecioated.