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PREDICTION FOR DEFORMED PART WITH TIME

Submitted by albanna on

Dear ALL,

Does anyone here has an experience carry out  FE analysis for a part[bracket] which was deformed plastically during cyclic loading test.

I'm now working to resolve this issue when a bracket was fail to withstand the constant loading of 500N during cyclic test. It was reported fail at ~3800 cycles which was less than target.

Rgds.

Two PhD RA Positions: US Citizen or Permanent Residents Only

Submitted by jeonghokim on

Graduate Research Assistant Positions

Graduate Research Assistant Positions are available for U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents who have completed a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Civil Engineering or a related field and wish to pursue Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from Fall 2015. We will also consider outstanding students who have completed their B.S. degree and want to directly pursue their Ph.D. degree starting.

 

Micromechanics Simulation Challenge - Level 1

Submitted by Wenbin Yu on

For the purpose of establishing the best practice for homogenization and dehomogenization needed in composites design and manufacturing, cdmHUB launches the Micromechanics Simulation Challenge. After incoporating comments from  academia, industry and commercial software providers, we have finalized the final draft for Level 1 problems, which is attached here with more details can be at https://cdmhub.org/resources/665.

Concrete block under thermal load

Submitted by apurv_vaidya on

Dear all,

I am new to abaqus and trying to analyze the thermal analysis on a concrete block of size 0.15 x 0.15 x 0.15.

The surface heat flux of magnitude 100 that I am giving is only from one side and NOT having any boundary conditions.

If I choose steady state condition then I get an error as "Time increment required is less than the minimum specified".

Also I cannot define time period. I want the nodal temperature of concrete subjected to thermal load from one side for 24 hours of heating at 100oC.

Please help!

Using different types of stress rates in ABAQUS UMAT

Submitted by afallah on

Dear friends,

As you maybe know, ABAQUS uses the Jaumann or Green-Naghdi stress rate for large deformation analysis. Recently i found some refrences that show these stress rates leads to major errors for some special cases. Now my question is, how can I change the stress rate used  in analysis process using ABAQUS UMAT?

Call for Abstracts: "Advances in Computational Methods for Heterogeneous Materials"

Submitted by Julian J. Rimoli on

As part of the 13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics to be held in San Diego, CA, on July 26-30 2015, it is our pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract to the Symposium “Advances in Computational Methods for Heterogeneous Materials”.