Structures in fire
Hi,
Are there researchers working on specific areas in offshore structures? Or is anyone covering the material behaviour of structures at elevated temperatures? I am indeed challenged to read about excitng contributions from different scholars expecially in structural mechanics. I realise I have just begun a race in research. You could help me gain the proper direction in research.
I shall be glad to get any response.
Emmanuel
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problems in using traction-separation laws supplied by Abaqus
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Abaqus supplies cohesive elements and several traction-separation laws
which can be used to study crack problems. In studying a mode I crack
problem (see Fig.1), the cohesive interfaces in front of the crack tips
(both sides) are represented by cohesive elements. The size of the bulk
material is taken as 6x6 mum and the size of cohesive elements is 2x2
nm (or 10x10 nm). The constitutive response in the cohesive element is
described by a triangle-type traction-separation law, where maximum
stress or displacement is chosen as the failure criterion of the
Modelling offshore platform deck in fire
Hello fellow researchers,
I am almost completing my first year in research study and am finding it difficult running my structural simulation in ABAQUS once I have included non-linear geometric effects. I didn't have problem with the simple heat transfer analysis. I have also converted (--) to the true stress-logarithmic strain curves at elevated temperatures using the empirical model given in EC3, yet no good outcome. Can anyone suggest to me how I could go about it?
Comments will be gratefully appreciated.
Finite strain finite element formulation
Hi ,
I am working with finite strain finite element formulation. Normaly, the weak form is derived from equilibrium at a reference configuration or differential of 1st piola-kirchoff stress tensor. In case, we have 10 steps of load increment, is it necessary to update nodal position or nodal coordinate for each step??. I am using newton-raphson method.
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sugeng
Course Notes of Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Fluids by Prof. K .J. Bathe
I thought the mechanics community would be interested in the course notes of
Prof. K. J. Bathe on "Finite Element Analysis of Solids and Fluids". This
course was taught at MIT and now is available freely through MIT Open
CourseWare website:
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