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Ultra high speed imaging of impact fracture

Submitted by D.Rittel on

Here are some movies of impact fracture of various test cases, recorded at up to 5Mfps using the new Kirana camera. The sensor is not the final one yet, but the results are promising. Wedge loaded PMMA plates with holes reveal very nice crack branching (somewhat analogous to fireworks). My students Y. Rotbaum and A. Godinger who performed to test cases thought that Haendel "lascia chio pianga" is appropriate. I don't take a stance on that!

Enjoy:

 

ductile behaviour

Submitted by ANKIT BARANWAL on

I have done flat plate tensile test experiment with plate having u notch at different angle to get mixed mode behaviour.The experiment shows the force variation F(30 DEG)>F(45 DEG)>F(0 DEG)>F(60 DEG) While fem elasto-plastic model made in abaqus shows F(0 DEG)>F(30 DEG)>F(45 DEG)>F(60 DEG).

Can anyone tell me why this contradiction is there between experiment and fem model. 

Open PhD position in soft tissue modeling at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Submitted by Bjorn Skallerud on

The project addresses tissue modeling for the pharynx region and is a part of a larger project addressing the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (mechanical, fsi, medical angles). See www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/101325/phd-positions-in-sof… for further info. Deadline is 15 May.Expected start-up is summer 2014.

From dislocation motion to an additive velocity gradient decomposition, and some simple models of dislocation dynamics

Submitted by Amit Acharya on

Amit Acharya         Xiaohan Zhang

(Chinese Annals of Mathematics, 36(B), 2015, 645-658.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Nonlinear and Multiscale Partial Di fferential Equations: Theory, Numerics and Applications held at Fudan University, Shanghai, September 16-20, 2013, in honor of Luc Tartar.)

Non-Metricity and the Nonlinear Mechanics of Distributed Point Defects

Submitted by arash_yavari on

We discuss the relevance of non-metricity in a metric-affine manifold (a manifold equipped with a connection and a metric) and the nonlinear mechanics of distributed point defects. We describe a geometric framework in which one can calculate analytically the residual stress field of nonlinear elastic solids with distributed point defects. In particular, we use Cartan's machinery of moving frames and construct the material manifold of a finite ball with a spherically-symmetric distribution of point defects.

How to assign orientation for fibers in woven composite ?

Submitted by Aswathi Sudhir on

Hello everyone,

 

I am working on textile composites. I have to assign local material orientation for the fibers. I have come across *ORIENT  subroutine in abaqus. But I am quite new to user subroutines. Is there any other way in which I can assign local material orientation to the fibers?

The fiber layout is such  that it has linear as well as sine part. Can anyone give some idea on how to create *ORIENT for such fibers?

Thanks