Internship available in FEA of elastomers
Internship Announcement
Title : FEA of Elastomers
Category: Internship in Industry
Employer: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
Location: Sugar Land, TX, USA
Starting Date: 01/01/2010
Blog posts
Tsai-Wu FC
Good evening,
in the order to perfom a calculation of Tsai-Wu Fc in Ansys there are two fundamentally different methods:
1. with the help of nodal stresses.
2. or with the stresses from the element table.
I want to know what is the difference, and which method, according to your experience is the best.
Thank you very much!
Embryonic stem cell softness dictates stress-induced spreading and differentiation
We recently find that embryonic stem cells are very sensitive to a local cyclic stress applied to the focal adhesion. They spread and differentiate (Oct3/4 downregulation) in response to this local force.
Umat-Help-Progressive Damage modeling
Hiii All,
I am writing an umat for Progressive Damage modeling for 3d Composites.
when I am compiling my Umat i got an error which says
The executable /raid/software/64/abaqus/6.8-1/exec/standard.exe
aborted with system error "Illegal floating point operation" (signal 8).
I checked out my code many times but i dont find any wrong,Can any one please help me out to resolve this issue.
If some one needs my subroutine file i can send it to them provided te email address
Twitter and iMechanica
How many iMechanica users are on Twitter? And how many are on Twitter with professional contacts?
I started to use Twitter about 4 months ago in a completely social, non-professional context. As a personal (expat-focussed) blogger, I started to notice that I was
catching blog posts in my Twitter feed before I would see them in my
feed aggregator (Bloglines). Twitter has emerged as a different sort
of feed aggregator, as well as a provider of information.
Effective strain rate and strain rate in ABAQUS subrotine
Hi there,
would you please tell me how can I use or calculate the effective strain rate or strain rate in ABAQUS subrotine?
thank you!
Plasticity and elasticity questions
Dear All
I has question about these stresses.
1.Are deviatoric stress generate plastic deformation?
2. Are hydrostatic stress generate plastic deformation?
3.What is the advantage of transferring strain tenser orientation to the principle coordinate axes?
4. What is the difference between rupture and fracture stress?
Particle size and debonding stress
Hi everybody,
do you know where I can find some informations about the relation
between particle size and critical normal stress at the interface particle /matrix
for a particle embedded in a matrix?
I read the Chen's article 'Size effect of particles on the damage dissipation in nanocomposites'
but this article deals with spherical particles. I am studying clay/matrix nanocomposites and I would like to
calculate the relation between clay size and debonding stress.
Cecilia