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Meshing with UEL/UMAT element

Submitted by somusshabadi on

Hello All,

Does anyone have any idea how to automate meshing  using USER DEFINED ELEMENTS (for Example UEL) in Abaqus using python. Actually I need to mesh an arbitrary shaped structure  with 9-Node Quadrilateral Element. Abaqus doesn't support meshing of  9 Node Quad Element (S9R) either. 

Computational Biomechanics for Medicine VII: a MICCAI 2012 satellite workshop (Nice, October 01). Submission Deadline: 22 June

Submitted by adwit on

Computational Biomechanics for Medicine VII: a MICCAI 2012 satellite

workshop (paper submission deadline extended till 22 June 2012)


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         Call for papers



Computational Biomechanics for Medicine (
http://school.mech.uwa.edu.au/CBM2012/,

Abaqus problem

Submitted by nidz on

Hi,

I am using a bridge model with Tet element as mesh in the structure. I have given many static loads in deck surface . After submitting 'Job' gets stresses of different element label of the deck as report. I want to now calculate the volume of single element (tet element) so that I become successful in calculting the damaged volume due to the load. Is there any option to get the volume of the meshed elements.

Thanks in anticipation.

Nidz.... 

Saint-Venant's Principe of the " Cavity in Cylinder " Problem

Submitted by Jian-zhong Zhao on

The problem of a cylinder with a small spherical cavity loaded by an

equilibrium system of forces is suggested and discussed and its formulation of Saint-Venant's Principle is established. It is evident that finding

solutions of boundary-value problems is a precise and pertinent approach

to establish Saint-Venant type decay of elastic problems.

Ares Rosakis, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, ASME

Submitted by Ares Rosakis on

Awards will be presented at the AMD Banquet, scheduled on Tuesday, 13 November 2012, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas, 9-15 November 2012 at the Hilton Americas and the George R. Brown Convention Center.

 2012 Society Awards:

Recommend me some UMAT references for cardiac mechanical modelling

Submitted by Jason Liu on

Hi, everyone!

Now I am starting the research on cardiac mechanical modelling. The user defined function "UMAT" was used to implement  the anisotropic hyperelastic Fung-type model . Now I come across some difficulties to write UMAT subroutine. Can someone recommend me some useful codes that can let me know how to write it.

Postdoctoral Positions at Univ. of Texas at Austin, Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering

Submitted by Jinie2000 on

Dr. Mukul Sharma, Professor in Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin is seeking to fill two Postdoctoral Positions.