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Metal foams, cell deformation (bending, buckling, plasticity and fracture), constitutive stress-strain behaviour of cellular materials, energy absorption, hypervelocity impact, shock wave behaviour, 1D shock modelling, shock attenuation, shock enhancement, Material Point Method (MPM) simulation and microscopic tomography experimental observation;

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A new Technical Committee on Soft Materials

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Sun, 11/29/2009 - 18:40

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A growing number of mechanicians are entering the field of soft materials, such as polymers, gels, and tissues. While they interact with researchers in technical societies traditionally identified with the field, they also maintain connection with researchers in applied mechanics.

Course Announcement: EM 600 Aeroelasticity (Dept of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, San Diego State University)

Submitted by luciano demasi on Sun, 11/29/2009 - 18:20

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doublet lattice method

Hi all,

A new Aeroelasticy course is offered at San Diego State University.

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VUMAT for Nitinol --- why VUMAT and not UMAT?

Submitted by cece83 on Sat, 11/28/2009 - 12:53

Dear all,

I'm new in imechanica. I need some informations about VUMAT for Nitinol. I would like to implement in fortran a subroutine for the behaviour of shape memory alloy.I looked for some subroutines already implemented but they have been developed in the implicit way.

It's true that with the VUMAT(explicit) I could have some problems of stability and convergence.Could someone suggest me any reason to make this model in the VUMAT?I know that in VUMAT I can't redifine the time increment so before running the analysis It's important to pay attention on Dt.

Fracture mechanics

Submitted by vinay kumar B A on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 18:24

hi all..

i am having one doubt, please help me.

In a isotropic plate, if crack tip is present then to model the crack tip we use quarter point element ( IN ANSYS).

if we wants to model more than one crack tip than ,, ansys will give following error

" Only one stress concentration can be specified per area"

Please let me know what is the procedure to model more than one crack tip.

Thanking you

vinaya

Help needed with interpretation of received P h curves during NANOINDENTATION

Submitted by Anna Dolgran on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 12:58

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nanoindentation

elastic modulus

Dear iMechanicas,

I just started doing nanoindentation tests on dry biological samples (wood) with a flat punch tip and I have problems analyzing the results! I would be happy if anybody could give me some suggestions.

While running a test I receive quiet good force-displacement curves (no adhesion, good surface find, no time-depend behavior) but the values for the recieved elastic modulus are not stable! The value scatters over the whole range of displacement.

18th Annual International Conference on COMPOSITES/NANO ENGINEERING (ICCE -18), Anchorage, Alaska,USA, July 4-10, 2010

Submitted by Xiangfa Wu on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 20:29

The Eighteenth Annual International Conference on
COMPOSITES/NANO ENGINEERING (ICCE - 18)
ICCE-18 Anchorage, Alaska,USA, July 4-10, 2010
http://myweb.polyu.edu.hk/~mmktlau/ICCE/ICCE_Main.htm

Message from ICCE Chairman

modelling of rectangular composite plates using ANSYS

Submitted by sharma_avadesh on Thu, 11/26/2009 - 18:08

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I have to analyse the carbon/epoxy composite laminate in ANSYS, to determine the natural frequency of rectangular composite plates. The plate is simply supported . I am not able to model the composite lay up with the correct orientation of the fibre. so any body have the step by step procedure for modelling the composite lay up in ANSYS and how to determine natural frequencies please give it to me on my e-mail: sharma_avadesh [at] yahoo.com