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VUMAT of Drucker Prager, help needed please..

Submitted by Gayan Aravinda on

Hi Everyone,

                    I have written Drucker Prager in VUMAT version as shown below..but still there are some deviation with the original in built version of ABAQUS. I have all the notes how i derived these equation.could you please show me where the code has gone wrong or have i missed a critical point in here..i tried my best to spot the error but could not..may be you all experts could find it. Thank you very much. 

 

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Lecturer in Mechanics of Materials - Loughborough University, UK

Submitted by Vadim Silberschmidt on

Loughborough University, UK - Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Lecturer in Mechanics of Materials / Full Time Salary: £34,233 to £45,954 Closing date: 17 August 2014 The School is one of the largest and most successful engineering departments in the UK. Applicants should hold a Doctorate or equivalent experience in Engineering, Computational Mechanics or a related discipline.

XFEM for crack propagation

Submitted by Bijin on

Hi 

I am new in Abaqus XFEM and I am stuck at geting a crack propagation in XFEM ,working for my Master thesis, the crack doesnt propagate. In some examples its gets opened/widened, but its not propgating.

Can any one please advise me on this or help me with simple input file for checking.

I have attached a input file of mine , it owuld be of great help if someone could have alook and advise.

Thanking in advance

Thanks

Bijin

bijinvj [at] gmail.com

EST method with GNU Octave

Submitted by Andres Lahe on

The EST method -- http://www.e-uni.ee/e-kursused/estmethod/ -- http://digi.lib.ttu.ee/estmethod/ESTmethod.pdf -- is a general computational method, for solving boundary value problems for the structural analysis of frames, beams, and trusses. Differential equations are considered here together with a set of boundary conditions.  Compatibility equations for joint displacements and equilibrium equations for member end forces at joints serve as boundary conditions.

Case Study Effect of Pore Size on Pellet-Based Catalyst Flow

Submitted by Simpleware on

We have a new case study on our website based on research at Imperial College into multiscale tomography and calculating permeability for catalysts. The project involved studying the influence of pore structure on fluid flow across large length scales in silica-alumina pellet-based catalysts.

3D data at different length scales was obtained from XMT, DBFIB-SEM and ET scanning and segmented into a binarised dataset.

elastic follow-up

Submitted by W. Brocks on

This is the story of threefold failure, which doubtlessly is the subject of fracture mechanics, a story of failure in various regards, however. First, it comments on an article dealing with failure assessment, second it reports on the personal failure of the blogger to understand this article, and finally it bemoans the failure of a seminal idea.

 

Chasing for “prey”, I came upon a contribution on the assessment of “crack-like defects under combined primary and secondary loads”, namely