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concrete damaged plasticity considering strain rate

Submitted by Wenming. Wang on

Hi all,

Concrete is sensitive to strain rate. I want to create a model for a reinforced concrete plane frame. The material model used for concrete is concrete damaged plasticity, and the element type is B21. I want to consider strain rate effects of concrete(strength). The problem is that ABAQUS can not work after considering strain rate effects of concrete when the concrete yields. Can you help me? Thank you in advance.

Tension in screw because of moment in section

Submitted by parisa on

Hi,

In a section of a beam with a rectangular hole which has got crack (see attached picture); Moment and shear are specefied. I can undrestand why we have tension in the screw because of the shear but why do we have tension because of moment in the screw? Can anybody explanin me why moment in the section can cause tension in the screw which should be accounted for in the screw design.

 

Thank you,

Parisa

About the air Dam

Submitted by BradleyI on

The air dam, or front spoiler, of your automobile may appear to be a part of questionable need. Like a rear spoiler, the intention of the air dam is really just to redirect air and improve the aerodynamics of your vehicle. Is the air dam actually necessary?



Resource for this article: All about the Air Dam



Positive aspects of having an air dam

New perspective on Couple Stress theory resolving the indeterminacy issue

Submitted by Ali_Hadjesfandiari on

Dear fellow Mechanicians,We have done this research on couple stress theory which we believe has resolved the problem of indeterminacy in the spherical part of the couple-stress tensor and the appearance of the body couple in the constitutive relation for the force-stress tensor  (Mindlin and Tiersten, 1962).I humbly request you to read the paper and give me your feedback. I believe you would agree this is an important issue in Continuum Mechanics which can open up new frontiers.Sincerely,

Ali Reza Hadjesfandiari 

Mixture Material Model in DEFORM 3D

Submitted by ashwin.devotta on

Hi all,

I would like to model the transformation of austenite to bainite and martensite in the simulation software DEFORM 3D.

I am not so much confident with the core metallurgical concepts. I would like to know, if some one has experience in creating a material  model using mixture method in DEFORM 3D.

Would like to hear from you.

With Best Regards

Ashwin

Time Dependent Distributed (Consistent) Mass Mstrix Calculation in FEM

Submitted by vasudeo on

Dear All

I am working on large deformation finite element analysis for my research work. To consider the self-weight I need to calculate the distributed (consistent) mass matrix. So my question that how calculate time (for static analysis time will be representing only load steps) dependent distributed mass matrix in new configurations. 

 

Any comment will be appreciated 

Thanks

Vasudeo Chaudhari