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Writing a Main program to test UMAT

Submitted by nitinchandola on

Hi Mechanicians,

 I have written a UMAT for single crystal plasticity analysis but it is not running properly. I want to debug it. Is there anyway to do that with Abaqus? In order to debug it in a Microsoft VC++ environment I decided to write a main program for the UMAT subroutine. Does this approach seem valid? Also what type of variables should be passed into the UMAT subroutine from the Main program?  

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

Nitin

50 Post-Doctoral Positions available at the new Research Center of Excellence in Mechanobiology

Submitted by Chwee Teck Lim on

 

A new $150M Research Center of Excellence (RCE) on Mechanobiology has been set up at the National University of Singapore  (http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/headlines/0209/TRCE_20Feb09.php).  We are now in the process of hiring 50 good post-docs. 

Seeking Phd position in Mechanics / MEMS

Submitted by karthi_selvam on

Hello,

I am a Mechanical Engineer with a Masters from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. I have been working in various fields of Mechanical Engineering: Product development of forging components and in software development of hyper-elastic finite element software development.

Springback analysis using ANSYS

Submitted by msd.jacob on

I am carrying out spring back analysis using LS-dyna and hyperform. The procedure as follows: forming is carried  using LS-dyna and then the spring back  is included in to the result file using hyperform and .k files are created using hyperform itself. While running the analysis, after certain number of iterations, the analysis aborts with message equilibrium can’t be achieved.  I have included the both the input files (with and without spring back).

Please point out what could be the mistakes inthe input file and advice me for any additional inputs.

Post Doctoral Position in Multiscale Modeling of Radiation Induced Damage

Submitted by Suvranu De on

There is an opening for a postdoctoral research position in the Advanced Computational Research Laboratory at RPI, Troy NY to work on a multiscale modeling project which involves the modeling of radiation induced damage of metallic materials. Encouraged to apply are creative, self-motivated candidates with a sound background in computational mechanics. Qualifications: 1. PhD in Computational/Applied Mechanics / Materials Science or related topic. 2. Sound background in nonlinear solid mechanics. 3. Sound background in FEM technology. Prior experience in multiscale modeling is a plus. 4.