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New book on Solid and Structural Mechanics, Modeling and Finite Element Analysis

Submitted by miguel.bucalem on

 

The Mechanics of Solids and Structures  Hierarchical Modeling and the Finite Element Solution

 

Miguel Luiz Bucalem and Klaus-Jürgen Bathe

 Our main objective in this book is to provide a rational, structured and modern framework for the modeling and analysis of engineering structures.

Teaching FEM to Biologists/Medics

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

All,



Could anyone recommend courses, online materials or text books that
would be suitable for teaching the finite element method to someone with
a non-engineering background. This request is on behalf of an MD
student wishing to use the FEM for modelling the wrist. We're initially
looking for introductory materials.



Best regards



Lee

The "Goldilocks" Effect in Fossilized Dinosaur Trackways

Submitted by Lee Margetts on

The following paper is now online:

Falkingham P.L., Bates K.T., Margetts L. and Manning P.L. (2011) "The
'Goldilocks' effect: Presevational bias in vertebrate track
assemblages", Journal of the Royal Society Interface

See: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/01/12/rsif.20…

Authors welcome any comments for future studies!

Survey on XFEM: is XFEM good at characterizing Failure rather than Fracture?

Submitted by tvpc22 on

Would like to hear your expertise/user/non-expert/sceptic comments on XFEM. Here are some of the challenges. Would like to hear your relections.

1. Can XFEM be utilized in characterizing Failure rather than Fracture?

2. What sort of challenges XFEM still have with respect to Fracture Mechanics?

3. How the Fracture mechanics benefit the industry, from the perspective of strcutural integrity?

4. Failue investigations vs. Fracture investigations: benefit to industry?

5. Academist vs Engineer: Perspective on XFEM

Which free finite element analysis software to use for this problem?

Submitted by Remi on

Hi,

 

For a personal project I'd like to find a free program that lets me see what happens when I take a beach ball and apply greater and greater weight on it.  I'm specifically interested in the deformation of the ball, and the stresses in the material.

 

Run ANSYS through MATLAB

Submitted by Maher Al-Dojayli on

Hello All,

Does anyone know if it is possible to run ANSYS as a solver through MATLAB ? I want to run optimization in MATLAB and change some variables whether they are geometry or material variables and run ANSYS through MATLAB to solve especially ANSYS CFX or Workbench where I can have multiphysics.

If this is possible, I would appreciate it if you can share the method of how to do so.

Thank you all

Maher