These notes were prepared when I taught fracture mechanics in 2010, and were updated when I taught the course again in 2014. I hope to start a conversation at a new post entitled Division of Labor.

Notes on other parts of the course are also online.

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Hi all. I'm interesting biomechanics. I'd like to design the connection of knee in ABAQUS. Who can help me, how I can finitness of the bones? Thanks in advance.

Sergey

Gyroscopic effects is a very old topic.

When reading
literature, I am confused by the two concepts: "gyroscopic moment", and
"Coriolis force". Are they exactly the same thing or different? what's
the difference between them if different?

The Computational Mechanics group at The University of Iowa, led by Professor S. Rahman,

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frequency responce- how to track natural frequency of the beam using Abaqus? may i have the example of doing that? and the details that need to be considered.

Thanks.

Dear Friends. 

                   I am trying to model a moving truck on a bridge . Initially I want to try doing a static analysis. For this , I have modeled tyres as analytically rigid cylinders and, placing them on the solid slab element . After this i have applied a velocity boundary condition to the rigid cylinder , and also a load ( Pointing in the direction of gravity) to the reference point . 

The new feature of XFEM was added to the ABAQUS6.9-2. Does anybody
know how can I extract the current configuration of crack in terms of distance
values from nodes? I know that PHILSM provides information on this issue, but
it is only about crack plane. I want nodal distance from crack front