Dear all

I am looking for some papers about hygrothermal effect in composite plates.

some of these are here:

I am going to study the diaphragm behaviour of the composite slab under the lateral loading.

To simulate the system using FEM package (such as ANSYS or ABAQUS). the obtained results from FEM package would then be verified by experimental results that must be done by myself.

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I’m very much obliged to you if you would be so kinds help me.  I am trying to design washing machine. Initially I want to try doing a static analysis. For this, I have modeled cylinder (shell) and, placing them on the solid ribs. After this i have applied boundary condition to the assembly, and also a load (centrifugal). For only Tie connection between cylinder and rib, I got simulation but less strain at rib region.

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Hi there,

 Recently I have modelled a 2D block of soil, at the first step of analysis the soil block subjected to a gravitational load (Gravity) and gravitational stresses generated in the soil block, at the second step, a little rectangular part of soil block removed and currently a concrete block with same size of removed soil embedded on the soil block. this concrete block to be subjected a surface loading.

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Hi, I am wondering if anyone can give me suggestion on the following problem.

 I would like to do Frequency response study on a viscoelastic material. The frequency response computation usually takes a modal damping ratio. However the viscoelatic material is defined by K (elastic bulk modulus), G0 (short-time shear modulus), Gi (long-time shear modulus) and Beta (decay constant).

Is there a way to find  the modal damping ratio from the time domain viscoelastic material parameters (K, G0, Gi and Beta)? E.g. in a FEM environment?

 Thanks.

Hi all ... i have been doing element deletion extensively in my analysis but was wondering ... wat are the Pros and Cons of using this method. To my knowledge was wondering how the deleted mass and energy are conserved through out the analysis. Thank you all.