I attach the slides of a presentation at the ASME meeting. The talk was based on several recent papers on soft active materials (SAMs). To give an uncluttered picture of the pull-in instability, I have removed all discussion on the Maxwell stress. As you can see, the problem can be studied without ever mentioning this troublesome notion.
I noticed that the Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics has been founded and would like to have his personal records in detail, hopefully with his portrait(photo).
I'm very interested in the choice of the finite element spaces for elasticity. I want to choose elements for the stress and the velocity, I was suggested to use piecewise constant for the stress and piecewise linear for the velocities to satisfy the Babuska-Brezzi condition. Is that right? I've heard that I can't use only 6 components for the stress in this way, but I must add some additional constraint to enforce its simmetry. I'm looking for additional documentation, but I can't find any. Has someone got any suggestion? Thanks.
I'm studying cracking analyses in a three point loaded specimen of a composed beam.I'm using ANSYS and i want to create codes for estimation of J integral and energy release rate in the vicinity of crack tip.After that i'll calculate the stresses and strains fields,and then i can compare the equivalent fields i retrived using CTOD and K(I,II,III) factors (according to ANSYS algorithm).
My problem is that I'd like to find a relationship between the above mentioned quantities(J,G) with K(I,II,III)factors.
I run part of the website here at the IMechE in the UK. Since we have many international visitors to our technical events I thought I'd point out that we've finally brought out a whole raft of RSS goodness with the launch of a range of industry specific feeds from our calender of events. We intend to launch more feeds for other content areas soon.
Hi AllI am working on Simulation of nonlinear phenomena in MEMS devices. I do not know for residual stress in Microcantilever beam I should use pre stress or initial stress. I checked initial stress by Shell 181 and solid 186, but answers are for from experiments (around 100 times). I do not know what the difference between initial stress and pre stress is.
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I need urgent for an artice in the journal of applied mechanics,ASME(an old issue--> December 1959).My requested article is "Piping Flexibility Analysis" by L.H. Chen
Is there any one has this issue?
Sincerely yours
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