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I have been asked to initiate the publishing of a quarterly newsletter for the ASME Committee on Constitutive Equations.  Does anybody know how I can use iMechanica to do this?

Dear Guys!

I'm looking for a person whom familier with concrete modeling.

is there any one?

Dear Guys!

I'm wanna model the concrete plasticity in abaqus and is it possible to tell me which element type should I use for Concrete modeling?

Regards.

Dear All

I'm working on studing the use of metal foam in sandwich structre containing Al or steel plate to overcome an impact shells or plates at differnet impact velocity but the prblem that I face how to define the failure critrion of Meat foam except difine the crushable foam properties, and I've read a paper on using cohesive element but i don'nt know how to use it.

Hopefully some one can help me solving this prblem, by the way I'm using ABAQUS v6.6

Regards

Hi this is Tim, final year undergraduate student .can anyone tell me why we need time integration for plasticity (hardening).As i am undergraduate student my knowledge is very limited so could you please let me know from basics. Also what does explicit and implict integration  mean in the application of  plasticity?

THanks in advance,

Tim

This is my final project.