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Summer Job for Students in Europe: International US-European Joint Study of X-Ray Optics Thermomechanical Stability and Control

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Summer Job for Students in Europe: NSF-sponsored International Research Experience for Students (IRES)

International US-European Joint Study of X-Ray Optics Thermomechanical Stability and Control

 

Exact solutions for the free in-plane vibrations of rectangular plates

Submitted by Bo Liu on

All classical boundary conditions including two distinct types of simple support boundary conditions are formulated by using the Rayleigh quotient variational principle for rectangular plates undergoing inplane free vibrations. The direct separation of variables is employed to obtain the exact solutions for all possible cases. It is shown that the exact solutions of natural frequencies and mode shapes can be obtained when at least two opposite plate edges have either type of the simply-supported conditions, and some of the exact solutions were not available before.

Constitutive equations for membrane element

Submitted by Yasheng Chen on
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Hi all,

 There are two poisson ratios for membrane element in Abaqus.  One is for the material and the other one is "effective section poisson ratio", which can be set to zero to fix the thickness of the membrane.  Does anyone know how these two Poisson ratios work in the constitutive equation of a membrane?

 Thank you very much!

 Yasheng

UMAT to VUMAT

Submitted by Mitsyeti on

 

Hello ,

 

I am a relatively new user to ABAQUS , and i am trying to figure out a way ( if there exists ) to convert a model defined in ABAQUS / Standard to Explicit for conducting impact testing.

 Now i have figured out most of the model apart from the material defination. The previous model has a User defined material , and i need to convert it to a VUMAT.