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Defining general contact in axisymmetric analysis with share node cohesive elements

Submitted by prabhat on

Dear All,

I am am using share node cohesive element in axisymmetric analysis. I want to use friction between two joined blocks when cohesive elements break. I tried this with using general contact definition in Abaqus 6.8. To do so, I am defining element based surface but while running the simulation the abaqus gives following error:

***ERROR: *CONTACT currently does not support the use of 2D surfaces.

 Can anyone help to find out what can be wrong with my surface definition.

With regards and best wishes,

Prabhat

Cardboard rolls on the nanoscale

Submitted by Peter Cendula on

Everybody knows that cardboard paper can be a highly
anisotropic material. You can easily bend or roll it in one direction
and it is stiff in the other. If you take a close look you will find
that the paper is periodically buckled along one direction. We have now
exploited this phenomenon on the nanoscale to define the roll-up
direction of ultra-thin membranes on a substrate surface.

Y.C. FUNG STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION ON BIOMECHANICS AND BIOPHYSICS

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and first year post-doc researchers.

 The deadline for submission is January 15th, 2011.

 

Happy New Year !

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Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to announce that the Biomechanics Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has established a
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Y.C. FUNG STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION ON BIOMECHANICS AND BIOPHYSICS

Warnings in nanoindentation simulation

Submitted by weidongli on

Hi all,



     I am using abaqus to model a nanoindentatin problem and always meet some
warnings. There are generally three types of warnings, as shown below.

Is there anyone who know how to resolve this kinds of problem. I have
been struggling to this problem for a couple of days.  So, you help will 
be highly appreciated.



    ***WARNING: THE REFERENCE NODE 1 (ASSEMBLY) IS PART OF THE CONNECTIVITY OF

Bonding of Soft and Rigid Materials

Submitted by kvm7 on
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I am workingon a model in which i have a soft layer of material bonded between to rigidlayers of material via cohesive elements following a linear separation-tractionlaw based on a critical fracture energy value I determined from experimentaland numerical work. I have the interlayer and cohesive elements as one partwith a partitioned face and connected to the two adherends viasurface-to-surface ties. I have found that my model runs successfully only ifthe soft interlayer material is made very stiff.

Cohesive Elements and Soft Materials

Submitted by kvm7 on

I am working on a model in which i have a soft layer of material bonded between to rigid layers of material via cohesive elements following a linear separation-traction law based on a critical fracture energy value I determined from experimental and numerical work. I have the interlayer and cohesive elements as one part with a partitioned face and connected to the two adherends via surface-to-surface ties. I have found that my model runs successfully only if the soft interlayer material is made very stiff.

Natural Frequency Extraction in conjunction with UMAT in ABAQUS

Submitted by Vaibhav Yadav on

Hi,

We are using the user subroutine UMAT in ABAQUS for varying the material properties in a thin plate. For any static analysis this subroutine is working perfectly fine. However, while using UMAT during natural frequency extraction, ABAQUS is not completing the analysis and is giving a very vague following error message in the log file:


Finite Element Modeling On Polymer Nanocomposite with Clay Nanofiller

Submitted by ANIL KUMAR on

I'm doing Mtech project on Finite Element Modeling On Polymer Nanocomposite with Clay Nanofiller.  For that am using ABAQUS software,  so i need some information regarding that ABAQUS software, how to do finite element modeling of nanocomposites with nanofiller and How to prepare a code distrubution in the plate like particales in the polymer matrix with ABAQUS software. So please can any give information.