Hello all,

I am studying some simple finite elements for 2d near-incompressible analysis. Particularly, I am interested in the MINI element. It is basically a 3-node triangle element with nodal pressure and displacement degree of freedoms enriched by a bubble function. Could someone that has some experience with these elements point me out about advantages and drawbacks of using these type of elements?

Thanks,

Alejandro.

I am a freshman of researching the macro response of  metals with micromechanics scheme. Now,I have to build a  self-consistent modeling of plastic and viscoplastic for polycrystalline materials. However, it seems difficult for me as I have little knowledge of polycrystalline and its mechanics propertities.

If you know some systematic books or papers about my research area. please let me know. Your kindness will be great appreciated!!!

I am doing plain concrete beam subjected to low velocity impact model in abaqus. for model the concrete i have choosen concrete damaged plasticity. Is it the proper selection for model the concrete under dynamic loading. If it is correct, how to get the tensile behaviour of concrete (yiled stress, cracking starin) from uniaxial test data (yiled stress, inelastic strain). Please help me if any body is having the idea on this.

University of Glasgow, Civil Engineering, Mechanics and Materials

 
Increased Reliability for Industrially Relevant Automatic Crack Growth Simulation with the eXtended Finite Element Method

 
http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G042705/1 (Funding for £483k)

A unique EPSRC funded 4 year post-doc to investigate

- goal-oriented error estimation in XFEM

- adaptivity for 3D crack growth

The ASME Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee of the Materials Division is organizing a symposium on Multifunctional Material Systems at IMECE2009 to be held in Lake Buena Vista, FL, during Nov. 13-19, 2009.

Abstract submission deadline: March 2, 2009

Dear All,



Could somebody indicate me some literature about the topic "2D
approximation of heterogeneous 3D media"?



In particular I am interested to address following issues:



1) Under which conditions averaging thermal conductivity and young
modulus (or more general, mechanical behaviour) on multiple 2D crossections of an heterogeneous "random"
material can be a good approximation for the behaviour of the real 3D
microstructure

I am Neil. Please suggest some good texts for Explicit Finite Element Method. I would like to start with the basics and then go in depth, so that i can start some simple coding.

Thanks for any information you can offer. 

Symposium on Mechanics of Integrated Material Structures in Advanced and Emerging Technologies