Hello everyone,

Here is the problem I have: I'm modeling the geometry of a simple straight edge crack in a 2D elastic medium using Abaqus. I assume plain stress conditions. The crack makes an angle with the horizontal, is small enough to be considered as embedded in an infinite domain (ratio crack length/size of domain < 1/10) and I apply a vertical compressive load on top of my domain. I fixed one point in displacement at the bottom of it and the whole bottom edge is constrained not to move vertically.

hi, i want yield stress and plastic strain data for aluminium and epoxy resin.actually i m doing project on composites.....

Hi, Matlab experts !

Did someone work with Prof. Houck's paper (A genetic algorithm for function optimization: A Matlab implementation, 1995) on the genetic algorithm ?.

In his paper he proposes 3 online tutorials (gademo1.m; gademo2.m; gademo3.m) for working with the function "ga" in Matlab but it's all for Matlab 5. This function syntax has changed considerabily in Matlab 7. The key point is that we cannot define "bounds" which is a matrix of upper and lower bounds on the variables with Matlab 7.

So how Matlab 7 deals with this problem ?

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I guess it is about time some one from the Cornell Fracture Group got on this site to try help answer questions related to the CFG software or other fracture mechanics related questions.  We do try to answer questions sent to us via email, but sometimes a forum like this would be best and we do appreciate other users input, feedback, and answers.

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