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Fatigue damage initiation - computational methods

Submitted by pragtic on
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Dear iMechanicians,

It seems that nobody here is active in fatigue life prediction focused on the initiation period. I believe it should be here and do not understand why the fracture mechanics has its place here but the initiation of cracks has been forgotten. Although cracks are very interesting there is a lot industrial sectors, where they are not wanted. Is not the reason of the current situation that the available computational tools that are free are mostly related to crack growth?

Regards,

Jan Papuga

 

Measurements of near-ultimate strength for multiwalled carbon nanotubes and irradiation-induced crosslinking improvements

Submitted by Horacio Espinosa on

For more than 15 years, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been the flagship material of nanotechnology. Researchers have conceived applications for nanotubes ranging from microelectronic devices to cancer therapy. Their atomic structure should, in theory, give them mechanical and electrical properties far superior to most common materials.  

Using User Subroutine UMAT in abaqus

Submitted by sanjay2008 on

Hi,

Iam a new user of abaqus. I have a subroutine written in *.for format. I also have an input file *.inp . Both these programs are in the same folder. When I try to execute the *.inp file using the command

abaqus job=jobname datacheck interactive

I get a  message saying  "Abaqus/Standard Analysis exited with an error. please see the message file for possible error messages". I looked in the message file and it says ***ERROR: USER SUBROUTINE UMAT IS MISSING.

Then I used the command

abaqus job=jobname user=umat.for

Determination of R-curve from load/crack data

Submitted by Samuel Kwofie on

I need help to determine or contruct the crack reistance (R-curve) of a material that show crack bridging. I have the experimental data of applied load and crack lengths due to these applied loads. the SENB specimen was used and loading was 4-pt-bending. The plot of Kapp versus crack size did not give the usual rising curve which plateaus, but rather increases exponentially. How do I get the Kb (i,e K due to bridging) or the normal R-curve. I am not a mechanical engineer but into applied mechanics.

 

Stroh formalism and hamilton system for 2D anisotropic elastic

Submitted by Teng zhang on

 

We have read some papers of stroh formalism and the textbook of Tom Ting, and found that the stroh formalism and the hamilton system proposed by prof.zhong wanxie had some relation. We want to know whether the stroh formalism is enough for the analysis of the anisotropic elastic? Thus's to say, for some problems could not  give the satisfied answer which we may try the hamilton framework. I briefly compare the two methods as follows:

Balance Laws in Continua with Microstructure

Submitted by arash_yavari on

This paper revisits continua with microstructure from a geometric point of view. We model a structured continuum as a triplet of Riemannian manifolds: a material manifold, the ambient space manifold of material particles and a director field manifold. Green-Naghdi-Rivlin theorem and its extensions for structured continua are critically reviewed.

ABAQUS/CAE-Creating Fluid Elements

Submitted by krithvi on
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I am trying to model the air inside a 195/65 R16 radial car tire using ABAQUS(6.6.1). I am interested in knowing the air cavity volume and pressure change due to vertical loading. I think fluid elements are the way to go. 

I would appreciate pointers with regard to creating fluid elements (examples, input files etc..) as ABAQUS/CAE does not support this feature.

Ansys modelling - how to apply load combination- one variable and other constant

Submitted by compiit on
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My ANSYS model is a plate. i need to apply two different loads on the model, one an out-of-plane load and the other an in-plane load. Out of the two loads one load should be kept constant during the analysis and the other load needs to be varied in incremental steps. Is there any way to keep one load constant and increment only the other load in the ANSYS analysis?