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A boundary element formulation problem

Submitted by ahmed.hussein on

I am working on some boundary integral equation formulation and I am currently stuck with some mathematics. I wish anyone can help me out with this. 

 

I have an anisotropic (sometimes called generalized) biharmonic differential operator which  takes the form

L = k11 D1^4 +  k12 D1^2 D2^2 + k22 D2^4 

where D1 = d/dx, D2 = d/dy, my problem is two dimensional.

I need to find a fundamental solution (Green's function) for this operator, that is 

L(u) = -delta

where delta is Dirac delta function.

Material like snail shell has been selected to be shown at Expo 2010 in Shanghai at Youth Innovation Center

Submitted by Haimin Yao on

Dear Colleagues:

I am very happy to let you know that our innovation of material like snail shell has been selected to be presented at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai at Youth Innovation Center (中国2010年上海世博会全球青年创新之旅).

 

Free Folding of Suspended Graphene Sheets by Random Mechanical Stimulation

Submitted by Jianliang Xiao on

Graphene edges, analogous to the structure of nanotubes, can significantly influence the overall electronic and magnetic properties of graphene nanostructures, and thus have become important issues in graphene research, especially for electronic applications. In this recent paper published on PRL, we reported that the free folding of suspended graphene sheets by random mechanical stimulation has preferred folding directions.

Which free finite element analysis software to use for this problem?

Submitted by Remi on

Hi,

 

For a personal project I'd like to find a free program that lets me see what happens when I take a beach ball and apply greater and greater weight on it.  I'm specifically interested in the deformation of the ball, and the stresses in the material.

 

Geometry&FEM connection in Mechanical APDL (ANSYS)

Submitted by mehmetsari on
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Hello everbody,



I'm mechanical engineer and working as FEA Engineer in GATES. I have
been using ANSYS for 5 years and I want to ask a question about new
version of ANSYS.



I use ANSYS Mechanical 12.1. I connect "geometry" and "setup" to
Mechanical APDL box in "project schematic". Then when I open Mec. APDL, I
can see the cad model (areas, lines, volumes) and FEM (nodes, elements)
but they aren't connected to each other. is there any way to connect
solid model to finite element model?





Best Regards.