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Thanks, Charles
Lecturer in Bioengineering
School of Engineering, Durham University, UK
I have some doubts about reporting stress in FEA.
For a static analysis, if I am getting high surface stresses in a section, however stress is reducing throughout the thickness.
I checked for the membrane stress at that section & it is approx. 75% of the max. surface stress. However, sectional nodal average stress is approx. 45% of the max. stress.
Which stress should I report in such situation?Thanks.
Onkar
Hi all, i am the final semester student in.Struc Mecha.For my final
project i have to model combine sheet pile with FEM. i used ansys for
set up the model. Combination of AZ,HZ n RZ profile were developed
sheet pile. In my modelling i applied frictional contact to define all
the connection between two parts. When i run my calculation, it does
not converged when body get contact. I was applied spring and small
load step in set up.but still does not work too..if anybody have any
Hi all!
I read that the "cmplementary starin energy of a structure is not equal to sum of the complementary strain energies of it's components, if there is non-linearity like geometric"
That means for e.g. if I consider a truss stucture subjected to loading so that it undergoes geometric non-linearity, then the sum of the complementary strain energies from members is not equal to complementary strain energy of the structure.
I request somebody to explain why is it so??
Thanks and regards,
- Ramdas
Can anybody help me with piezoelectric modeling using abaqus cae? I am pretty new on this, I am looking at tutorials or *.cae files but I cannot find any. can you please reference me where to find them or maybe explain how it works? Thanks
salam to every one......
I am doing B.E mechanical and my final year project is related to thermal analysis of fin i have completed my first step that is first law analysis of thermodynamics. And i have achieve temperature profile on fin model.
Now i am stuck at second step that is ENTOPY AND EXERGY ANALYSIS(i.e second law of thermodynamics) ihad seached enough but ther is no feature like this. i am using follwing equation for calculatig entropy calculation
Entropy balance at node N
