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Keynote Lecture by Prof. Ted Belytschko at 2008 ASME IMECE in Boston

Submitted by Harold S. Park on

I would like to invite everyone attending the 2008 ASME IMECE next week in Boston to attend a keynote lecture given by Prof. Ted Belytschko of Northwestern University.  The lecture will occur at 1:45 PM on Tuesday, November 4, and will be entitled "Multiscale Computations of Fracture - When Does Flaw Tolerance Occur?" 

Further information on Prof. Belytschko's talk can be found here: 

http://www.asmeconferences.org/Congress08/PlenarySessions.cfm

At the earlier stage of crack deceleration, dot(KID) is positive and linear relation with crack tip velocity (Nishioka, 2001)

Submitted by chaumcor on

I am reading the paper of Prof. Nishioka (2001) (Int. Jour. of Solid and Fracture, Vol. 38, 5273-5301). He said that "At the earlier stage of crack deceleration, dot(KID) is positive and linear relation with crack tip velocity". I do not understood that meaning. This is from mathematical, right? If after the earlier stage of crack deceleration, which relation between dot(KID) and crack tip velocity?

CMIS2009 5th Contact Mechanics International Symposium, April 28-30 2009, Chania, Greece

Submitted by GEStavroulakis on

CMIS09

5th Contact Mechanics International Symposium

April 28-30, 2009, Chania, Greece

 

www.cmis2009.tuc.gr

 organized by

Prof. G.E. Stavroulakis

Technical University of Crete

 

Fatigue Crack Propagation Analysis by means of ANSYS

Submitted by Sanam Saebi on

HI Every Body

 I am postgraduate student of NavalArchitecture, My thesis is Fatigue Crack Propagation in ship Industry, I want to use Ansys Software for this purpose, at first I generated a plate with a central Crack and did fine mesh around crack and saw the results, for next step I should propagate the crack, my questions are as below:

1. How we can predict the Crack path?

2. how should I growth the crack? shall I clear mesh and extend the crack or.....???? I don't know?

3. How Can I use from Interface Elements?