Greetings, 

Recently I have been indulging into loads of papers on "Progressive Damage Methodology".

I wondered based on what theory did the "Progressive Damage Methodology" intrigue so many researchers to unfold various kind of experiment and simulation, in other words, why do people have to study on this methodology?

Also, I was curious on the difference between "Cumulative Damage" and "Progressive Damage".

Can anyone here possibly give me some advice on the two questions?

 Faithfully,

James

Hi

     I am doing seismic analysis of Fluid filled cylindrical steel tanks using FEM. In this analysis I m supposed to find Base Shear and Overturning moment. Steel tank is thin shell and is flexible. For the complete loading of the shell I have its stress field i.e I have Nxx, Nxy, Nyy, Mxx, Mxy, Myy components of the thin shells middle surface. They are per unit length. Using these components how I can find Base Shear and OTM?

      Any reference/suggestion for this study....

Thanks in advance

Srinivas 

Hi all,

I 'm  interested in finding a complete seachable database on carbon/epoxy orthotropic prepreg [properties and values]. Those values are needed to be inputted into my finite element program for my thesis. One of those materials which i'm trying to find is the MR50/LTM25 as well as several others.

Any suggestions would be great

Thanks 

Kind regards,

Ee Lian

How can I run an analysis that starts in Abaqus/Standard and can be continued in Abaqus/Explicit? Does Abaqus automatically take care of data exchange between them or it should be manual. In other words, can I define step1 in a model run by Abaqus/Standard then immediately running step2 under Abaqus/Explicit?



Thanks,

Ahmad Falahatpisheh

PhD student of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

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Last year when I started implementing interface elements to model material failure, I realized that the formulation is easy except how to generate a mesh with interface elements. I did a googling to search for such a free program. Amazingly, I did not find any although there are many researchers working on the fracture mechanics field.



So, I wrote a small object-oriented C++ program which reads a FE mesh, duplicates nodes and insert interface elements where asked. The program is able to

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 Hi everybody, i am Ravikumar doing M. Tech. project on multi scale analysis of composites.

I gave the input as nodal displacements and different material properties for glass and resin. I applied all the normal stresses and shear stresses on the micro scale model which is of hexagonal array  structure. (i.e., one circular fiber at the centre and quarter fibers at the four corners of the model and the remaining portion is filled up by resin).

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 Has anyone ever used a vumat subroutine with Eulerian elements? it seems that the stress update formulation is different from the way it is in Lagrangian approach! If you have any experience in this regard I'd highly appreciate if you share it with me.

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