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Recent research in Shell Structures

Submitted by gokulabalaji on
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Hello everyone,

    I am M.Tech student,i am working on Stability of shell Structures. I am in the process of selecting a relevant topic to do my M.Tech Thesis. For almost 2months now, i am searching for a topic which will be new and had not done much in the literature.

    I had seen topics like anisotropic shells, buckling instability, snap-through, cracks in anisotropic cylindrical pressure vessels.

Reg. Convergence and Mesh Density

Submitted by shrimad on
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I am using a FORTRAN FE code for 4 quad elements with a viscoelastic material and with contact analysis. The routine follows a Newton Raphson iteration scheme and which makes the residual zero for convergence. I am using direct sparse matrix solver from the FORTRAN math library.



how can i measure local stress and strain in fatigue crack tip?

Submitted by uni_students2009 on

It seems that the measurment of local stress and strain in fatigue crack tip will be difficult. some researcher use F.E analysis method,in contrary using of numerical solution. however analytical method also has investigated. what method you can imagine? i need a brain storm in this issue.

 

Thank you

Hadi

The effect of film thickness on the failure strain of polymersupported metal films

Submitted by Nanshu Lu on

We perform uniaxial tensile tests on polyimide-supported copper films with a strong (111) fiber texture and with thicknesses varying from 50 nm to 1 μm. Films with thicknesses below 200 nm fail by intergranular fracture at elongations of only a few percent. Thicker films rupture by ductile transgranular fracture and local debonding from the substrate. The failure strain for transgranular fracture exhibits a maximum for film thicknesses around 500 nm.

Practical and graphical remarks about Moving Least Squares

Submitted by Alv on

I have had some time to write down an informal introduction to Moving Least Squares, from my coding perspective. It is supposed to be a condensation of experiences after some years of using it, although it does not contain any new theoretical aspect.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/19409754/yanrMLS

a fracture problem

Submitted by Jin MZ on

  Dear everyone

  If we considerer a 3D fracture stress and strain field as a combination of numerous 2D fields in thickness direction, the J integral at each 2D plane can be obtained according to Rice’s definition (Abaqus and Ansys also include this function). What I concerned is the ratio of J integral at the surface of SEB or CT specimen to that at the mid-plane of the specimen. What factors have influence on the ratio? How to find the quantitive relationship between the factors and the ratio in linear elastic model?

modeling reinforced concrete cylindrical shell with abaqus

Submitted by mansoor on
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Hello to everyone

I want to model a reinforced concrete cylindrical shell with abaqus using concrete damaged plasticity model. I want to model meridional and circumferential rebars in cylindrical shell in abaqus cae. I want to know which rebar geometry (angular or constant) I should use for modeling of both meridional and cirunferential rebars.Can I plot crack pattern for reinforced concrete shell in abaqus?

please guide me