Materialise releases version 12 of their image processing software Mimics. Together with this release they present their new house style. Mimics 12 contains a brand new module for pore analysis, segmentation enhancements and much more.
Hi
I am trying to model a rock mass with few discontinuities in ABAQUS. I have to use "joint elements" (Goodman element or the more recent variations) to model the discontinuity. The element should model a separation in tension and a slipping governing by Coulomb friction. Is there any element in ABAQUS capable of modeling such behaviours? If not how can I add one?
Thanks,
Kazem
Dear All,
I am analyzing a steel pressure vessel with autofretage effect in ANSYS. This effect brings the vessel steel fully plastic in the first load step.After the remval of the load in the second step,a permant strain and residual stress remains in the vessel.The residual stress develops compressive stress in the vessel.
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To calculate stress intensity factor ANSYS have two option:
1. Plane stress
2. Plane Strain
In a completely 3D problem, How can I use ANSYS to calculate stress intensity factor with out using J integral?
Hi,
I recently started working with piezoelectricity using ANSYS. Can anybody suggest me some tutorials and macros for ANSYS-piezoelectricity.
S. Premkumar
There has been some discussion about the low ratio of replies to reads on iMechanica. While it's nice to think that a lot of people are reading our posts, I wonder how many of those 'reads' are really bots indexing the page. For example, I posted a blog entry last night around 11:00 and nine hours later it says it has been read 45 times. A couple of those can be attributed to me but I'm sure 40 real people have not read the post. Add to this the fact that the post is already showing up in Google.
...But I Don't Know What to Do...
...So I Leave It Up to You
by Ten Years After (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Years_After or on iTunes)
We study the effects of grain boundary adhesion and grain size on the ductility of thin metal films well bonded to polymer substrates, using finite element method. It is shown that the ductility of polymer-supported metal films increases approximately linearly as the grain boundary adhesion increases, and as the grain size decreases. A rule-of-thumb estimate of the ductility of polymer-supported metal films agrees well with the simulation results.
In press, Scripta Materialia, 2008
