Ferrari Millechili project --- the next generation of sport car
I am going to Modena on Monday to talk to my collegues in the Millechili lab (MilleChili means 1000Kg in italian)
Blog posts
Software/codes for atomistic/continuum coupling multiscale materials modeling
There exist some software/codes for atomistic/continuum coupling multiscale materials modeling methods (in alphabetical order):
1. AtC, atomistic-to-continuum coupling, included in LAMMPS
2. BDM, bridging domain method, included in LibMultiScale
3. MMM, multiresolution multiscale mechanics method
NSF Summer Institute Short Course on Mechanics of Soft Materials
NSF Summer Institute Short Course on
Mechanics of Soft Materials
Co-sponsored by
The Intrenational Union of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) and
The US National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (US/NCTAM)
Organizers: Yonggang Huang and Wing Kim Liu, Northwestern University
Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Avenue, Evanston, Illinois, 60201
Dates: May 10 (Monday) morning to May 12 (Wednesday) morning 2010
Open Source Software Repositories
I will be setting up an open source project for parallel finite element analysis in the next month or two. I am just wondering what the community's opinion is regarding the best repository to use.
SourceForge? Google Software? Others?
Your opinions are welcome.
Challenges in the finite element analysis of tire design using abaqus
Finite Element Analysis of Vehicle and Tire has become a very important aspect of a tire design and failure analysis to most Tire companies. Tire modeling with ABAQUS is a very complicated process involving complex materials like hyperelastic rubber and textile reinforcements, large model size, prolonged simulation time and various convergence issues. This white paper intends to help in understanding the challenges in tire analysis and several tips and tricks that makes a difference in the quality of the results and processing time.
Genuine shock waves and adiabatic hypothesis
Genuine shock waves and adiabatic hypothesis.
The author's account for the scientific working people about of his executed works
Question on history of mechanics
A question for those interested in the history of mechanics. We have Hooke's law for 2D stress-strain and a generalised Hooke's law for 3D stress states. Maybe I have missed something in my reading of history, but since it appears that it was Thomas Young and not Hooke who related stress and strain (Hooke looked only at force - displacement), why don't we use Young's law or a generalised Young's law?
How to define pressure direction in ANSYS
Hi everyone,
I am quite new in ANSYS Classic and now I had to realize a serious problem. After building a steel frame from beam4 elements I tried to define pressure on beams.
I can not find the direction of the pressure. It could work in or perpendicular to the plane of the frame (for example).
Could anybody help me, how to define the direction?
Modal Analysis
I have a model (ball) and would like to get the its eigen frequencies and eigen vectors (modal analysis), in fact i should not need to apply loads, it is just solution to K-w^2 M = 0, how can it be done