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I would appreciate it if you could tell me the analytical soluton of strain energy of infinite plate with an inclined central crack under tension.

Thanks so much.

Dear Research Comminity,

Please upload a few problems in non-linear buckling problems and solving procedure using ABACUS which helps me to understand the procedure and ABACUS.

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I have funding for software development to provide a UMAT interface in the parallel versions of the code from Smith I.M. and Griffiths D.V. "Programming the Finite Element Method", 4th Edition, Wiley, 2004.



I would be interested to hear about any open source UMATs available for download. I'd also like to hear from anyone who might like to use their closed source UMATs in a parallel environment.



The funding has been awarded by the UK National HPC Service HECToR to encourage the greater use of HECToR for Structural Engineering.

My PhD student Peter Falkingham (who graduated 15 December 2010) has published some interesting papers on Dinosaur Trackways. These might be of interest to those teaching Soil Mechanics, to give some examples that might be more stimulating than foundation design or traditional geotechnical engineering.

References below:

Hi,

I'm using ABAQUS for my research o soil-pile interaction. For the initial modeling of soil-pile interface I have used the "Hard" pressure-over closure relationship. According to the definition negative pressure is not possible with that type of normal contact behavior. But when I check the contact pressure still I can see that negative pressure is applied. What could be the reason?

Thanks,

Thanu

hello everyone!

I have a parametric model in ABAQUS. One of the surfaces has many faces and to set a displacement, for example, I need to select all the faces on this surface. One of the ways  to pick them is to use faces.findAt(), but the problem is that there are over 100 faces on this surface and I don't know their coordinates because I used "random" function to create them. Do you know how can I specify the region? I've tried to pick the whole surface instead but I couldn't...

Replay file always gives a mask.

Hello to all,

Iam in desperate need of advanced tutorials of ansys in non linear field. Can anybody if having please mail me to contactkirthan [at] gmail.com (contactkirthan[at]gmail[dot]com).

Thanking you

Kirthan.L.J