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Indentation of polydimethylsiloxane submerged in organic solvents

Submitted by Yuhang Hu on

This paper uses a method based on indentation to characterize a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer submerged in an organic solvent (decane, heptane, pentane, or cyclohexane).  An indenter is pressed into a disk of a swollen elastomer to a fixed depth, and the force on the indenter is recorded as a function of time.  By examining how the relaxation time scales with the radius of contact, one can differentiate the poroelastic behavior from the viscoelastic behavior.  By matching the relaxation curve measured experimentally to that derived from the theory of poroelasticity, o

Slope of Contact force Vs time curve too steep.

Submitted by priyadd84 on

Dear all,

           I did a 3 pt bending impact simulation with an elasto plastic model. But the slope of contact force vs time curve is too steep at the beginning of the impact. One trivial way of reducing the slope is by reducing the young's modulus of elements in the vicinity of contact or the impactor. Also reducing the mass of the impactor and the impact velocity did not help in reducing the slope.

Is there any other non-trivial parameters that controls the slope of contact force vs time plot? Thanks ina dvance.

 

About Multiscale

Submitted by Peng Liu on
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I’m studing Multiscale Finite Element Methods recently。But I find it diffcult to read the book——Multiscale Finite Element
Methods Theory and Applications,which by Yalchin Efendiev,Thomas Y. Hou。Anyone have some program codes about Multiscale Finite Element Methods ?How to couple the corsa mesh and fine mesh?Thanks!

Evoution of Yield surfaces: Past and Future Trend - Part 3

Submitted by Amit Pandey on

 My last two posts on this series

Part- 1 (node/9016) and

Part- 2 (node/9073)

were mainly focussed on the tension–torsion (σ11–√3σ12) stress space. This paper will be the final post on this series and will focus mainly on the behavior of  both of these alloys under tension–tension (σ11σ22)space and conclude this ongoing research.

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Brain drop simulation

Submitted by mihir01 on
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I am doing research involving the finite element modeling of a human head namely Scalp, Skull, Brain & Duramater using Abaqus/CAE. I have finished modeling the parts, assigning the material properties, assembling and meshing the said model. I need to drop the whole assembly onto a 'floor'. What step should I choose. Also what interaction would I have to create so that the head would shear when it is dropped a distance less than 1 cm. Also bear in mind that it should not bounce.

 Thank you.

Modeling contact in ABAqus

Submitted by ahkulkar on

i am working on modeling hertzian contact (general and standard conact in abaqus). i want to know how to model contact between surfaces of my assembly.  i modeled it but it gives me error saying that my regions in the model are not connected.

How should I go about? is contact modeling different than just constraining the surfaces ?