The 5th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives will be held in the beautiful Alpine village of Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 7-11 September. Les Diablerets is situated 120 km from Geneva's international airport and is easily reached either by car or by public transport.

The full oral and poster programs, as well as registration details can be found on the conference website at www.tc4pca.elsevier.com

This is suneel donthamsetty working on metal matrix nanocomposites.i want to analyse aluminium matrix (Sic reinforced)nanocomposites using Ansys software.which type of element is suitable for nanoparticles.can any body answer please.

Hi all,

I would like to know how I put failure criteria in Ansys. I tried put in General Postproc --> failure criteria --> Add/Edit (FC datas), but the results always fail. I am modeling a simple plate, displacement on left side (all DOF) and applaying a pressure in the other side. Does somebody know how I can do this?

Thanks in advance

Silva

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I need help to determine or contruct the crack reistance (R-curve) of a material that show crack bridging. I have the experimental data of applied load and crack lengths due to these applied loads. the SENB specimen was used and loading was 4-pt-bending. The plot of Kapp versus crack size did not give the usual rising curve which plateaus, but rather increases exponentially. How do I get the Kb (i,e K due to bridging) or the normal R-curve. I am not a mechanical engineer but into applied mechanics.

We have read some papers of stroh formalism and the textbook of Tom Ting, and found that the stroh formalism and the hamilton system proposed by prof.zhong wanxie had some relation. We want to know whether the stroh formalism is enough for the analysis of the anisotropic elastic? Thus's to say, for some problems could not  give the satisfied answer which we may try the hamilton framework. I briefly compare the two methods as follows: