Dear iMechanica,
Last July I posted a journal club entry on overcoming the traditional challenges in mechanically actuating liquid-crystalline elastomers (http://imechanica.org/node/16853). I'm glad to say we finally got our first manuscript regarding this work published in RSC Advances (DOI: 10.1039/C5RA01039J).
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<p>im modeling an laminated rubber isolator in abaqus and i have used mooney rivlin model.My model consists of three layers of rubber and steel plates in between. I dont know how to view the results for seperate parts of rubber and also how to adjust the contour plot valuees. kindly help me with it. thanks in advance.<a href="http://imechanica.org/comment/26854#comment-26854"><br /></a></p>
Hello everone
I am recently interested in viscoelastic composite materials with ageing effect. I will be very pleased if someone can advise me how to find a constitutive law with ageing effect.
sincerely
Dear IMECE Attendees:
The Applied Mechanics Executive Committee (AMD-EC) is pleased to announce the 2015 IMECE student travel award and best paper competition.
In the context of metal plasticity, the yield function of a metal polycrystal is its most complex macro-characteristic. Letting aside the questions of kinematic or distortional hardening, the basic problem is geometric in nature: to design a family of convex surfaces capable of reproducing a wide range of experimental, or theoretically predicted data. While many satisfactory solutions have been proposed for the modeling of symmetric (with respect to the origin of the stress space) yield functions, the more general case of asymmetric functions has not witnessed comparable progress.
In our recent paper, we examined the energy conservation for the current schemes of applying active deformation in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Specifically, two methods are examined. One is scaling the dimension of the simulation box and the atom positions via an affine transformation, suitable for the periodic system. The other is moving the rigid walls that interact with the atoms in the system, suitable for the non-periodic system.
Hi, I am doing project on mixed mode crack growth of semi elliptical crack in gas turbine components under cyclic loading. Ansys has capability for finding J,K using CINT command. But, In mixed mode crack growth, i dont know how to deal with nodes and how to create random crack with new node coordinates obtained from previous steps. If you have any ansys code related to creating crack and finding fracture parameters like K, J (mode 1 or mixed mode), Can you please give me the code.
Thanks
(I cant use any other software, only Ansys)
Hi, I am using Ansys Apdl for 3d fatigue crack growth. I need any one code to understand how it can be automized (recreating crack with node shift and remeshing).
Thank you
Creasing and wrinkling instability are two distinct surface instability modes characterized by localized singular folds and continuous smooth undulations, respectively. In this article, we show that the surface of a soft elastomer may develop wrinkles or creases under compression and the action of gravitational force, depending on the magnitude of gravitational force.
