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Faculty Position - University of Colorado Denver - Mechanical Engineering

Submitted by Chris Yakacki on

The Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor position starting Fall 2016.

This is an open search with no preferred research emphasis.

More details regarding the position, CU Denver, and life in Colorado can be found here:

how can the plastic strain be greater than unity?

Submitted by student on

Does anyone know how can the plastic strain be greater than unity? Such as in the benchmark manual 3.2.10 Indentation of a crushable foam plate: 

*CRUSHABLE FOAM HARDENING

 0.2000E6, 0.0000

 0.2577E6, 0.0094

 0.2760E6, 0.0258

 0.3053E6, 0.0452

 0.3267E6, 0.0655

 0.3623E6, 0.1084

 0.3891E6, 0.1540

 0.4250E6, 0.2405

 0.4568E6, 0.3812

 0.4738E6, 0.4600

 0.5170E6, 0.6391

 0.5862E6, 0.8570

 0.6503E6, 0.9857

Errors in FRANC3D software

Submitted by Mojtaba1990 on

Hello to all,

My project is crack propagation in expander wheel.

I did static analysis in abaqus and i used FRANC3D for crack modelling.

I insert crack in FRANC3D, surface meshing is done but not volume meshing.

It gave me this error:

backtracking stagnating: restarting contraction

What is this error?

Can anyone help me?

I attach 2 pictures. First picture shows the meshing and another shows crack location.

In crack location i have two seed size of elements because of model geometry.

Contradiction in calculating Logrithmic strain from ABAQUS

Submitted by student on

Hi,

I am trying to extract logrithmic strains from Abaqus and then trying to compare with the experimental ones but I am getting different results. I found out the in Abaqus it uses slightly different formula then what I use theoretically.

In abaqus it computes LE from the following formula:

LE = plastic strain - true stress/E

But what I believe is that it should be like:

LE = plastic strain - yield stress/E

Can any one highlight why abaqus is using the first formula for LE calculation?

Positions in CAEP Software Center for High Performance Numerical Simulation (Beijing, China)

Submitted by Rong Tian on

The newly setup "CAEP software center for high performance numerical simulation", located in Beijing, China, is recruiting.

The center is focused on large-scale numerical simulation on petaflops systems such as Tianhe-2 etc.

The R&D of the center spans broad areas of high performance numerical simulation including preprocessing (CAD, mesh generation), parallel visualization, high performance middleware, computational mechanics (nonlinear FEM, GFEM/XFEM, SPH/MPM), mental and energetic materials, nuclear physics, electromagnetics etc.