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Crack tip stress and formation of Plastic/influence zone for composite solid rocket propellants
The necessity to understand the crack behaviour of composite solid rocket propellants as it helps in analysis of service life of rocket motors. Experimental data reveals that a material’s microstructure at the crack tip can have a significant effect on the local damage near the crack tip and crack growth behaviour in particulate composites.
Could anyone briefly explain what is the difference between "Shear Locking" and "Membrane Locking". Does this apply to plain strain elements?
Thank you.
Qiang Lu and Rui Huang
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering mechanics, University of Texas, Austin,
TX 78712, USA
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It is difficult to conduct post buckling analysis of thin shell under axial compression using Arc Length method in Ansys.
The Minimum & Maximum Arc Length radii are chosen by hit & trial.When imperfections are incorporated in the FE model, some times the solution diverges at a higher critical load that the eigen value buckling, which should be vice versa in actual. Some times , negative eigen values are also shown.
Is there any easy way to solve this nonlinear stability problem?
Himayat
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Hi
I want to know how we can define a Gap Element In ABAQUS
I am doing a research about simulating a delaminated plate by FE Gap Elements
Please Help
Thanks an advance
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