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I am modeling a plate under three point bending with Abaqus. The plate
is a sandwich structure with aluminum plate (thickness: 5mm), adhesive glue (thickness:
0.02mm) and a kind of foam (thickness: 15mm) bonding together. Their Young’s
modulus is at the order of 100GPa, 1MPa and 100MPa. While in incremental
calculation, the job is always be aborted for not achieving convergence. I just
wonder whether the cause of not achieving convergence should be attributed to
the huge difference in Young’s modulus.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11837-013-0845-3

Hello All,

Currently,I am modeling elasto-plastic buckling of laminated composites. I started with 3 layers (fiber-matrix-fiber) respresenting unit cell of composite. The model is made with material non linearity and incremental approach - Modified Riks Algorithm has been used for buckling analysis. My try would be to get plastic buckling in the model. For this I need to introduce "Element Weakening Method" (EWM) which allows user's choice to assign weak properties or reduced stiffness to the selected elements. Consequently, this helps in propagating damage.

Greetings my dear friends!

I'm Amin and its my first post!I'm studying mechanical Engineering in Semnan University in Iran and by the time  I'm workin' on entropy generation calculation for laminar and terbulent
fully developed forced flow and heat transfer of nanofluids inside
annul.I'd be really glad if anyone could give me hand with it .

I am modelling a very simple 2D contact problem between a rigid wedge indenter and a deformable squared-shape specimen (general steel material) in frictionless contact case. I used an implicit function f to describe the rigid indenter.



I implemented Lagrange multiplier method for this contact problem and the contact condition is: Inside the contact zone of the deformable specimen, the node set is active if f(node)<=0 and the Lagrange multiplier lambda<=0.

Dear Colleagues 

I want to start some research on the Carbon nano - tubes.

In the begining I need to model a CNT in the ABAQUS.

I wrote a code for generating the xyz Coordinates of the atoms in a CNT.

The problem is that I can not import them in abaqus.

Does anyone has an Idea ?



Thanks in advance

Hi

i am new new the the field of fracture mechanics i donot how to start it. can some one send some tutorial or other kind of help in doing fracture mechanics of nanocomposite using any software. Tutorials even of composites fracture mechanics using software so that i can have a idea about the fracture. 

thanks in advance