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Newly published book chapter - http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-31662-8_4 Aerogels are ultralight solids with nanoporous structure and are one of the world’s lightest materials available in the market. It is a dry gel, principally made up of 99.8 % of air and weighing just around three times that of air. The first aerogels were realized in 1931, when Kistler (J Phys Chem 36:52–64, 1932) attempted to remove liquid from a wet gel.

Dear all,

A member of our research group at TU Delft has recently published a paper entitled "A 3D Lattice Modelling Study of Drying Shrinkage Damage in Concrete Repair Systems" in the Materials journal. The paper is published as open access and the full text can be found at: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/9/7/575.

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to understand how does node based submodeling work in abaqus? I am not able to comprehend how to transfer nodal outputs from some other FEM package so as to perform submodeling in Abaqus? Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.

Hi all,

I have just published, with Chi Nguyen, Stephane Bordas and Amin Heidarpour, an article at Computational Mechanics, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00466-016-1314-y?wt_mc=Intern…. The abstrtact is:

In the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany, there is an opening for a doctoral student (research assistant) beginning on October 1st, 2016.  The position is at the Chair "Modelling and Simulation - Mechanics" in the Institute of Structural Mechanics and it is initially limited to 2 years. An extension is possible in accordance with the applicable regulations of the Science Employment Law (WissZeitVG).

Responsibilities:

·        Participation in teaching at the Bachelor and Master program level

Postdoctoral Associate

Presentation given as supporting slides for the course at IIT Madras

http://hdl.handle.net/10993/27979

http://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/27979/4/20160524_IIT_Madras_GIAN_S…

http://orbilu.uni.lu/bitstream/10993/27979/1/20160524_IIT_Madras_GIAN_S…

Yours,

Stéphane Bordas

 Abstract:

Hello everyone,

I want to model a unidirectional fiber composite using ABAQUS/CAE. The fiber has transverse mechanical properties. I used the engineering constants to define the mechanical properties of fiber.

Could anyone help me in how to define transverse mechanical properties in ABAQUS?

Thanks in advance