Creasing and wrinkling instability are two distinct surface instability modes characterized by localized singular folds and continuous smooth undulations, respectively. In this article, we show that the surface of a soft elastomer may develop wrinkles or creases under compression and the action of gravitational force, depending on the magnitude of gravitational force.
Imechanica Journal Club: “The Ruga Mechanics”
Prepared by Mazen Diab, Ruike Zhao and Kyung-Suk Kim
Brown University, Providence, RI
Introduction
Hi,
I am using HETVAL in abaqus to generate the heat. I am testing my subroutine and I set the flux(1) to a constant, like 5000000, but the output 'HFL', which I think should equal to the flux(1), turns out to be a very small number, and also it is a linearly increasing curve w/ time. Thus, the temperature is nearly not increasing.
I am also using the same problem using DFLUX.
Can anyone help me out?
Thanks!
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