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Fracture and debonding in lithium-ion batteries with electrodes of hollow core-shell nanostructures

Submitted by Kejie Zhao on

In a novel design of lithium-ion batteries, hollow electrode particles coated with stiff shells are used to mitigate mechanical and chemical degradation.  In particular, silicon anodes of such core-shell nanostructures have been cycled thousands of times with little capacity fading.  To reduce weight and to facilitate lithium diffusion, the shell should be thin.  However, to avert fracture and debonding from the core, the shell must be sufficiently thick.

How to implement a kind of nonlinear interaction relevant to relative velocity in ABAQUS?

Submitted by Quanzhao Sun on

Dear all,

Could anyone help to give me some advice on how to implement a kind of nonlinear interaction relevant to relative velocity in ABAQUS? The interaction force has a quadratic function with the relative velocity between two nodes. Thanks.

Mori_Tanaka effective Stiffiness/Compliance Formula for inclusions with similar shape

Submitted by everestar on

when all the inclusions with similar shape are embeded into the matrix, the 
 Mori_Tanaka effective Stiffiness/Compliance Tensor can be , respectively, given by

L ={∑cr(L0*+Lr)-1}-1-L0*

M={∑cr(M0*+Mr)-1}-1-M0* 

where,

International Journal of Computational Materials Science and Engineering (IJCMSE): Call for Manuscripts

Submitted by Amir Shakouri on

Dear
Colleagues & Friends:

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quarterly journal which aims to promote international exchange of new knowledge
and recent developments in all aspects of computational materials science and
engineering. By this means, we would like to invite you to contribute to IJCMSE
with your forthcoming research manuscripts.

Uniaxial compression of heterogeneous/cellular material (bone)

Submitted by Frank Richter on

 

Dear colleagues,

I kindly ask for advice on the following problem:

I simulate the uniaxial compression of a heterogeneous cylinder representing bone. Thus, it is not the visible solid exterior rim of the bone, but represents a porous structure within the bone, so-called trabecular bone, see the figure underneath.

The simulation is done in ABAQUS. The sample contains 164175 elements of type C3D4. The heterogeneous, porous structure makes it impossible to use axisymmmetric elements. The constitutive behavior is ELASTIC.