The June journal club entry was written jointly with Stavros Thomopoulos from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.
I'm a MSc (Applied Math) student modelling vibrating bridge hanger cables using corotational method. I'm interested in chatting with anyone using this method, especially for cables/beams but also other contexts. Thanks, John.
Dear Mechanical Engineers,
It's my pleasure to be one of your group. I have a question in Abaqus Explicit and all my friends recommended me to as iMechanica as the explicit Abaqus is more popular to you than us as civil engineers.
This paper studies the dynamic behavior of a dielectric elastomer balloon subject to a combination of pressure and voltage. When the pressure and voltage are static, the balloon may reach a state of equilibrium. We determine the stability of the state of equilibrium, and calculate the natural frequency of the small-amplitude oscillation around the state of equilibrium. When the voltage is sinusoidal, the balloon resonates at multiple frequencies of excitation, giving rise to superharmonic, harmonic, and subharmonic responses. When the frequency of excitation varies c
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Mechanical energy can be converted to electrical energy by using a dielectric elastomer generator. The elastomer is susceptible to various modes of failure, including electrical breakdown, electromechanical instability, loss of tension, and rupture by stretch. The modes of failure define a cycle of maximal energy that can be converted. This cycle is represented on planes of work-conjugate coordinates, and may be used to guide the design of practical cycles.
I did my Master in Material Science from IIT Roorkee in year 2007. Worked on GMAW of steel to aluminum joint in ISF, Aachen University, Germany under DAAD fellowship. Joined in Tata Steel Research and Development Division, India. Working in the field of Welding and Joining. Work on Adhesive Bonding and Weld Bonding of Advanced High Strength Steel sheets for automobilr. Now working on MIG-Brazing of High Strength GA steel sheets for automobile and also work on Friction Stir Welding of EIF steel to steel and EIF steel to Aluminum alloy sheets. Now looking for a PhD position preferably in Europe to do research in Welding Area.
I have a 3D model in Abaqus of a wind turbine rotor, modelled with shell elements (S4R and S3). To use the same blade in an aeroelastic wind turbine code (HAWC2 from Risoe), I want to convert selected cross sections of the 3D model to Timoshenko beam elements.
In a previous post some months ago (see here), I mentioned some of the questions I had considering the aeroelastic response of a wind turbine rotor. In this post I just want to give, for those interested, a brief status report.
