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Shape memory alloy material models including plasticity implemented in ABAQUS

Submitted by Jim S. Olsen on

I am working with shape memory alloys (nitinol), and am in that respect investigating fracture behaviour of NiTi, using, among other things, simulations in ABAQUS. ABAQUS doesn't have a material model that include plasticity unless you pay for it. I am wondering if anyone have implemented either of the following models as a UMAT, and if you are willing to share the code with me.



The models I am interested in are:

Free Materialise and ANSYS event on Virtual Prototyping Breakthroughs for Innovative Healthcare Applications

Submitted by Mimics on

Are you curious to learn more about FEA or CFD simulations on patient-specific data? Then Materialise and ANSYS would like to invite you to their upcoming free seminar on “Virtual Prototyping Breakthroughs for Innovative Healthcare Applications”, where you will learn how numerical solutions can help the Biomedical and Healthcare industry in the development of innovative solutions.



Practical Info

- Date: Friday, November 20th, 2009.

- Cost: FREE!

- Location: Leuven (Belgium), Materialise HQ office

Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics

Submitted by yongni on

Two positions for guest researchers(post-doc) at NIST on biomechanics 



Email: martin.chiang [at] nist.gov 

Homepage: http://www.nist.gov/msel/polymers/biomaterials/martin_chiang.cfm

Research area: Biomechanics 

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The effects of boron dopings and boron grafts on the mechanical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes

Submitted by haiyang song on

The effects of boron doping and boron grafts on the mechanical behaviour of armchair (6, 6)

and zigzag (10, 0) single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) under axial loading are

investigated using the molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method. The results show that

Young’s moduli, the tension strength, the buckling loads and the buckling strains of SWCNTs

decrease after functionalization. The influences of the distribution density of functionalization

on Young’s moduli of SWCNTs are also systematically studied. The results show that Young’s