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Earthquake in West China
After I put down the phone, my heart never felt so heavy. I just called my parents in my hometown, Chengdu, a city with 12 million people, which is just 90 kilometers away from the center of the strong earthquake at a magnitude of 7.9. It has killed more than 10,000 people so far. The death toll is still rising hour by hour.
Fig. 1 Earthquake map by the United States Geological Survey
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Hi All, I'm presently working on modelling of guided ultrasonic wave scattering at defect using Abaqus/CAE. Can anyone help me with some tutorial materials on modelling of crack or notch in a through-hole of a plate? Warm Rgrds. Jo Ukpai |
Modeling DCB Specimen using Ansys to determine Energy Release Rate
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Iam working on ansys modelling of DCB specimen to determine the energy release rate. Ihave modeled a CT specimen and determined its SIF. Is it right way to model the DCB by changing the dimensions of CT specimen and making it a DCB specimen?..
How can i find out energy release rate of the specimen?
Iam pretty new to Ansys
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Hi,How to apply seismic accelaration on the BC in abaqus.thank you!:}
I am confused about apply BC of a model in abaqus. because I find that if I apply the accelaration of earthquake on BC, I must remove the fixed constraints applied on BC in previous step in abaqus. so the model become a free body without any constraints.
any expert can give me some detailed suggestions?thank you very much!^_^
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Bloch-periodic boundary conditions in classical and enriched FEM
In the attached paper (accepted for publication), we present enriched FE formulations to impose Bloch-periodic boundary conditions. Bloch-periodic BCs arise in the description of wave-like phenomena in periodic media: periodic composites, Schrodinger equation in quantum mechanics, photonic band-gap materials, etc. For a perspective, see the J-Club on elastodynamic bandgaps and metamaterials that was organized by Biswajit Banerjee