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lagrangian and eulerian coordinates

Submitted by bruno-page on

What is the difference between Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates?

I have read that, Eulerian coordinates correspond to spatial points and Lagrangian correspond to material points.

A material point corresponds to a spatial coordinate in initial configuration?

I'm , however, not able to get the diference between the two.Can anyone explain?

In conventional linear finite element analysis, what do we use?Lagrangian or Eulerian mesh?

The effect of film thickness on the failure strain of polymersupported metal films

Submitted by Nanshu Lu on

We perform uniaxial tensile tests on polyimide-supported copper films with a strong (111) fiber texture and with thicknesses varying from 50 nm to 1 μm. Films with thicknesses below 200 nm fail by intergranular fracture at elongations of only a few percent. Thicker films rupture by ductile transgranular fracture and local debonding from the substrate. The failure strain for transgranular fracture exhibits a maximum for film thicknesses around 500 nm.

Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics

Submitted by Zhijun Zheng on

 Closed!!!

Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics

Email: martin.chiang [at] nist.gov (martin[dot]chiang[at]nist[dot]gov)

Homepage: http://www.nist.gov/msel/polymers/biomaterials/martin_chiang.cfm

Research area: Biomechanics

Practical and graphical remarks about Moving Least Squares

Submitted by Alv on

I have had some time to write down an informal introduction to Moving Least Squares, from my coding perspective. It is supposed to be a condensation of experiences after some years of using it, although it does not contain any new theoretical aspect.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/19409754/yanrMLS

a fracture problem

Submitted by Jin MZ on

  Dear everyone

  If we considerer a 3D fracture stress and strain field as a combination of numerous 2D fields in thickness direction, the J integral at each 2D plane can be obtained according to Rice’s definition (Abaqus and Ansys also include this function). What I concerned is the ratio of J integral at the surface of SEB or CT specimen to that at the mid-plane of the specimen. What factors have influence on the ratio? How to find the quantitive relationship between the factors and the ratio in linear elastic model?

Head loss in the laminar layer

Submitted by malaizai on
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I have a question which dealing with head loss in laminar flow. 

Is there another head loss formula except the Δh = f (l / dh) (v2 / g 2).

which the formula association of viscosity, length, wall shear stress, and diameter.

Any1 here can list out the head loss formula for me??

Thanks for the concern!

PhD STUDENTSHIPS:FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS IN MARINE ENGINEERING AND IN BIOINSPIRED DESIGN

Submitted by fhuera on

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) (www.urv.cat) in Tarragona (Spain), is looking for several enthusiastic research students with a strong interest in fluid dynamics. Successful candidates will join a small but very active multidisciplinary team, working in fluid-structure interaction problems. The research will be mainly experimental and focused in the area of fluid structure interaction with application to several engineering problems.

Why ANSYS not ABAQUS?

Submitted by Mario Juha on

I would like to know why ABAQUS is the dominant FEM program (in terms of comments) in this forum? Why do you consider ABAQUS over ANSYS?

I have been using ANSYS for at least 8 years and I am very please with the capabilities of it. But I have not seen ABAQUS or used it. Beside, reading all the comments that are posted in imechanica, I feel like I am using the wrong FEM program. 

Which are the advantage of ABAQUS over ANSYS?

 

Thank you,

 Mario J . Juha