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If research projects are funded by public money, shouldn't their
results be available to the public at a reasonable price? or even free
of charge?

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 I want to model reinforced concrete beam- column joint in ansys software.i choose the solid 65 for concrete and link8 for steel.

how can i model the stirrups?

Dear All,

Please explain me what is central differnce operator, what is the role of central differnce played in Abaqus/Explcit analysis

A few points that might be of general interest:

1. The dates: The date of Huygens' first written down material, which was orally presented to the French Academy of Sciences, is 1678---in contrast to the oft-quoted date of 1690. 1690 was the year of the first, French, publication of these notes (plus other material) in the form of a book.

Hi everybody,

 Can any one explain what is the physical meaning that a stiffness matrix illustrate ? I am a learner at a starting level in this Finite Element Analysis field . There are some questions which I wish to get an idea upon ...

 1. What exactly Stiffness Matrix tells about the structure ? Can you please explain with an example like "Linear Timoshenko Beam or Bernoulli beam or like 4-node plane stress element"....

 2. What is the relation between the eigen values of a stiffness matrix and the corresponding rigid body modes ? 

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