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Issue 2 of J. Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials published

Submitted by Dean Eastbury on

I am pleased to announce that Volume 1, Number 2 of the the recently-launched Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials (www.elsevier.com/locate/jmbbm) has been published by Elsevier. All JMBBM articles can be accessed free-of-charge on ScienceDirect until September 2008 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17516161).

how can add DOF in BEAM and SHELL element in ANSYS11.0

Submitted by iraj4u on

hi friends

thanks to ream my problem.

just i want to how can add DOF like TEMP in BEAM and SHELL elemnt in ANSYS11.0

u have any idea about that please send to me , i have trouble for ADD TEMP......

IS there Possible for transient analysis for Time vs Temperature for BEAM and SHELL ELEMENT.

related to thermal analysis

Submitted by iraj4u on

hello friend

my self raj .

in the beam and shell element " thermal OR temparature vs time" transient analysis possible ? 

   i have four story building model , if apply a temprature vs time history at second floor then  can i find out the each floor tempreture at each time steps ? due to thats also find out the strees and moment or  force at each node due to elongation of beam sheel element due to temparature incraese.

EM388F Term Paper: Finite Element MEthod in Fracture Mechanics

Submitted by Naoto Sakakibara on

Early applications of the finite element method to crack problem was
developed by Swedlow and et al. Even though they could get reasonable
accuracy about 5 to 10%, later study showed that solutions in the
vicinity of the crack tip cannot be guranteed to be accurate regardless
of the mesh density around tip. In order to overcome this problem,
people developed special crack tip elements.



In this term paper, I'm going to present 1) Finite Element Method in
Fracture Mechanics and 2) NewFinite Element technique so called Extended Element Method.