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How does temperature become a number

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on Sat, 02/21/2009 - 14:58

An essential step to “understand” thermodynamics is to get to know temperature: how temperature comes down as an abstraction from empirical observations, and how it rises up as a consequence of the fundamental postulate. I have just updated my notes on temperature. The beginning paragraphs of the notes abstract temperature from empirical observations. These paragraphs are posted here.

sourse of fluid mechanics

Submitted by lyyl on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 11:10

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whereto get the sourse of fluid mechanics ?

hi,

I want to learn fluid mechanics myself, but i have no idea how to do and where to search the sourses fluid mechanics ??

Thanks in advance

lyyl

Visualization of point displacements

Submitted by hmousad on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 03:07

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hello,

I'm a new ABAQUS user. I wander if I can get the displacements of any point just by putting the mouse arrow near by it like what is done in the SAP program.

I'm searching for that option but till now didn't find it

Thanks a lot in advance

Viewing the displacement on the deformed shape

Submitted by hmousad on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 03:05

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Hello,

I'm a new user of ABAQUS. I want to be able to view the displacements on the CAE deformed shape. Like to put the mouse arrow over a certain node and it writes the exact value of the deformations. (Like what can be done easily by the SAP program)

I just want to figure out how is that possible

Thank you in advance

Finite elements method monograph (spanish)

Submitted by Federico Bertoli on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 17:18

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Timoshenko beam FEM analysis spanish

Finnally I graduated in Aeronautics Engineering!

Yoy can find a monograph I made during Aeronautics Structures III about FEM in http://www.esnips.com/web/fedebertolisBusinessFiles

PS: It is in Spanish, english translation will be available soon.

meshless methods

Submitted by masth on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 05:47

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good morning sir,
i am masthan rao ,doing final b.tech in j.n.t.u.college of engineering kakinada.my specilisation is mechanical,i want to do my projcet on meshless methods.sir plese send the total information about meshless methods.my email id is pmkiasthanrao [at] gmail.com
thanking you sir,
yours faithfully,
p.masthan rao

Basic ABAQUS questions

Submitted by aryabhatt on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 18:43

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Hi,

I am a novice ABAQUS user. I've found out that I'm more comfortable using ABAQUS/Standard than the CAE version. The GUI is installled on a central server, thus it is slow, doesn't render images very well and keeps on crashing. I have some questions, which I guess are pretty straight forward for advanced users:

ABAQUS/CAE - How can I model a two-storey shear frame with rigid floors and LUMPED masses?

Submitted by buckholm on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 09:09

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This would seem like a simple task. Anyhow, I am having some trouble.

Problem description: I want to model a two-storey shear frame with rigid floors and lumped masses? I.e., in all its simplicity, a two-DOF system ignoring the mass of the columns and lumping the mass at the two rigid floor beams. A typical example in all books on structural dynamics.