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STUDY OF THE THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF DRY CONTACTS IN THE BRAKE DISCS « APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE ANSYS v11.0»

Submitted by belhocineali on

Abstract: The braking operation is a process which converts the kinetic energy and the potential energy of the vehicle into other energies. The major part of the mechanical energy is transformed into heat. During the braking phase, the frictional heat generated at the interface disc - pads can lead to high temperatures.

[ANSYS] Composites. Problems using shell181 at postproc and tsai-hill criterion

Submitted by ferraz75 on

Hi all,

I've modeled a composite sandwitch with ANSYS with a pressure. The element chosen was SHELL181.

I want to know the Stresses in the x, y and xy directions; the displacements and the deformations only in a few points so as to compare with the Navier and Rayleigh-Ritz solutions made following Reddy's book.

1.-The first problem is that I don't know how to ask ANSYS to list the displacements and deformations.

2.-The second one is that I know how to ask ANSYS to list all the elements in a layer,

A free program to generate interface elements in an existing FE mesh

Submitted by phunguyen on

Hello all,



Last year when I started implementing interface elements to model material failure, I realized that the formulation is easy except how to generate a mesh with interface elements. I did a googling to search for such a free program. Amazingly, I did not find any although there are many researchers working on the fracture mechanics field.



So, I wrote a small object-oriented C++ program which reads a FE mesh, duplicates nodes and insert interface elements where asked. The program is able to



ABAQUS user material subroutine VUMAT and Eulerian mesh...

Submitted by fred254 on

Hi there,

 Has anyone ever used a vumat subroutine with Eulerian elements? it seems that the stress update formulation is different from the way it is in Lagrangian approach! If you have any experience in this regard I'd highly appreciate if you share it with me.

 thanks

interaction for a beam element embedded in a 3D solid block

Submitted by Ehsanizadi_civil on
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Hi everyone,

 I am trying to model a beam element (which is supposed to work as a pile) embedded into a 3D block solid of soil.

the beam element (pile) is supposed to have 2 interfacial interactions; 1) tangential and normal contact at the end of beam element , 2) tangential and normal contact on the beam circumference. 

could anyone explain how to define this type of interaction?

I really appreciate that.

-Ehsan