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thermal stress in ANSYS

Hallo,

I'm using ANSYS for study the internal stresses of a trilayer structure resulting after a cooling process. The middle layer (the solder) has temperature dependent material properties and the other two layers can be considered temperature indipendent mat. properties. If I use a static analysis the software uses the material properties reffered to final temperature.

For an linear elastic analysis is this a realistic procedure?

If the solder deforms plastically at high temperature and not at final temperature..how can I do?

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Surface dislocation nucleation

 

  Surface dislocation nucleation

Ting Zhu, Ju Li, Amit Samanta, Austin Leach and Ken Gall, “Temperature and strain-rate dependence of surface dislocation nucleation”, Physical Review Letters, 100, 025502 (2008).

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International Workshop on Mechanics of Wood & its Applications in Wind Energy Technogies, Dhulikhel, Nepal, 10-12 November 2008

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wear of articulating surface of joint replacement

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Crack Kinking Out of an Interface - realization in a software

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Modelling of bi-layer system of slabs using ABAQUS.

 Hi everyone,

I am working on a project which deals with the bi-
layer system of slabs(i.e., two layers of different concretes bonded
together with a cement grout). The only loading case is the
temperature, i.e, due to the high room temperature different
concretes will conduct different temperatures and due to which the
stresses are developed and hence due to warping the edge curling and
delaminations occur.

My questions are;

1. what are the bond properties required to input in the abaqus?.

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Cell and Biomolecular Mechanics in silico, Nature Materials, Volume 7, 2008.

Recent developments in computational cell and biomolecular mechanics have provided valuable insights into the mechanical properties of cells, subcellular components and biomolecules, while simultaneously complementing new experimental techniques used for deciphering the structure–function paradigm in living cells. These computational approaches have direct implications in understanding the state of human health and the progress of disease and can therefore aid immensely in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.

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Metal Foam failure

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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

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Geometric Design, Computer Graphics, and FEM

I recently participated in a minisymposium (SIAM Conference ), where geometric modeling, graphics, and finite elements were the focus. Over the past 4 to 5 years, there has been a lot of interest in the construction of barycentric coordinates on polygons/polyhedra, and the minisymposium brought together many of us with common interests.

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