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Dear All,

I am modeling 3D beams with arbitrary cross sections and for that purpose I need to calculate the warping function numerically. The warping function ψ(y,z) is defined as a solution of the following Laplace equation with Neumann boundary conditions:

∂2ψ/∂y2 + ∂2ψ/∂z2 = 0 in Ω,

∂ψ/∂n = z*ny - y*nz on Γ,

where Ω is the cross sectional area, and Γ is its contour. This system can be solved by different numerical methods, for example, finite element method, boundary element method, finite differences...

Numerically I obtain that

Good mourning, it is well known that the cohesive forces models permet an easy and less combersome computation of the crack problems, these models formulated in term of stress are accompained with a scale effects because of the presence of a crachteristic lengths like the critical opening/sliding value, and the length of the cohesive zone at the begining of the propagation. In order to set the values of the characteristic lengths of the model used in the simulation for a given material, it is intressting to do that through an experimental tests like a compact tests.

hello,

     I have encountered a problem to calculate the stress at interfacial Guass point of each hexahedron element. Since the effective stress is needed to decide whether a cohesive element should be inserted when using the extrinsic cohesive element model, the stress at interfacial Guass point of each element is chosen to calculate effective stress. In the calculation process, the stress at Guass point of each hexaderon element can be obtained.Is there anyone who knows how to calculate the interfacial stress accurately? I would appreciate your comments.

Dr. Martin at Colorado School of Mines alerted us the unfortunate news of the passing away of Prof. Maurice Jaswon, a pioneer of boundary integral equation/boundary element method. An obituary is published by the London Daily Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/897734…

i want to carry out a nonlinear static pushover analysis for a concrete dam, i'm using the concrete damage plasticity model for the above. i'm able to carry out the frequency analysis for the model, but after applying any kind of load the the job gets aborted in both static analysi and static riks analysis.

in static analysis it does not converge, whereas in  static riks analysis it says a zero displacement step ha been encountered and analysi cannot proceed..

can anyone please help me out tof this..

thanks in advance

shijo antony (IIT-R) 

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Dear All,

I'd like to know your advise on the following problem:

I'd like to model the behaviour of steel column to steel beam joints using a phenomenological model. I'm using connector elements to do this, namely UNIVERSAl and JOIN connectors.

In the connector behaviour I'd like to model the non-linear behaviour of the joint considering the loading, unloading and reloading (in the opposite directions, stress sign). The loading and reloading curves are different.