Acharya, A., Jump conditions for GND evolution as a constraint on slip transmission at grain boundaries, Philosophical Magazine, 87(8-9), 1349-1359, 2007 (see attachment)

Hi,

In my research i am trying to develop a new model for plastic deformation, and i suspect there is a strong similarity between

plasticity and turbulent flow !.

My question is: if there is workd done trying to apply Reynolds decomposition (Reynolds Stress) to the governing equations and solved plasticity problem in Solids?

thanks,

Yaron B.S.

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A new paper concerned with Nanoscale analysis of plasticity and fracture of the sheet metal is published in ICCS proceedings and available at:

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European Commission' s JRC (Joint Research Centre) is organizing a workshop on physics based modeling of material properties and experimental observations in collaboration with METU (Middle East Technical University). The workshop will be held in Ankara on 22-23 October 2012.

Our group at North Carolina State University is hiring PhD students and Post-doctoral Associates in the areas of multiscale modeling, computational mechanics, fracture, and plasticity.

Interested parties should email  zikry@ncsu.edu, and send a cv with a few representative publications.

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2012-07-10

I would like to seek comments on : Room temperature stress relaxation and governing mechanisms that contribute to the plasticity that occurs during this process. As, most of the available work on relaxation is done at elevated temperatures.

Please check more on this thread by hari@

http://imechanica.org/node/12687

 I have also attach papers by Prof Hart and Prof Krempl that did throw some light on this particular subject.

Attached herewith a classical paper by Hart on introducing a concept of constant hardness curves refuting that absolute strain should not be considered as a state variable.

The objective of the workshop, co-organized by Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and Middle East Technical University, is to discuss the present status of physics based constitutive modelling of metallic materials and associated experimental methods.

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Hi,
Is there a place I can find explained examples or tutorials on how to model user defined creep in ANSYS?

I need to follow the creep law __>      effective creep strain (e at time t) = S. T. e^(-H)

S=(a0)^t.(sigma)^(a1) ;     T = t^(a2)+(a3).t^(a4)+(a5)t^(a6)   ; H = (a7)/[(theta)+273.16]

a0 to a7 are material constants.

I have the experimental data and tried to fit the curve in Ansys to obtain the material constants. 

I tried to follow the ansys help file steps. But facing erros messages.

If any one could give me a sample apdl code it would be helpful.

Mir

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming Summer
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Constitutive Modeling and Numerical Implementation”, which will take place in
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ENSAM Metz.

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Soil, as a typical natural material, has very complex behaviour which is very difficult to be accurately modelled. In geotechnical engineering, about half of the accidents are caused by insufficient designs. The soil’s constitutive model is the fundamental issue for modelling and analyzing soil-related engineering systems.

 Dear forum members,

I'm trying to simulate a tensile test (of ductile material) using smooth and notched specimens. I've started with a simple model without damage (isotropic von Mises plasticity implemented in ABAQUS) to compare the force vs. displacement response between simulations and experiments.

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I need to write a Vumat subroutine in ABAQUS 6.11.1, and I dont know where should I begin from exactly? can anybody help me with the suitable version of Fortran for this version of ABAQUS and the steps I need to take for writing a SUBROUTINE in ABAQUS?

 Thank you guys 

Dear friends and colleagues,

This is to inform you of the minisymposium

Plasticity: Bridging the Scales from Micro to Macro

to be organized at the 22nd International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM XXII) and request you to consider submitting an abstract. The workshop will be held in Baltimore, MD, USA during September 24-26, 2012.