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Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA)

Submitted by Nanshu Lu on

The Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA) is a collaboration between the Agency for Science, Technology & REsearch (A*STAR), the National Unviersity of Singaproe (NUS) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). PhD training will be carried out in English at your chosen lab at A*STAR Research Institutes, NUS or NTU. Students will be supervised by distinguished and world-renowned researchers in these labs. Upon successful completion, students will be conferred a PhD degree by either NUS or NTU.



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Metal Foam fracture

Submitted by mhmd abdelshafy on

Dear All

I'm working on studing the use of metal foam in sandwich structre containing Al or steel plate to overcome an impact shells or plates at differnet impact velocity but the prblem that I face how to define the failure critrion of Meat foam except difine the crushable foam properties, and I've read a paper on using cohesive element but i don'nt know how to use it.

Hopefully some one can help me solving this prblem, by the way I'm using ABAQUS v6.6

Regards

time integration for plasticity

Submitted by tim on

Hi this is Tim, final year undergraduate student .can anyone tell me why we need time integration for plasticity (hardening).As i am undergraduate student my knowledge is very limited so could you please let me know from basics. Also what does explicit and implict integration  mean in the application of  plasticity?

THanks in advance,

Tim