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The Automated Computational Mechanics Laboratory (ACML) in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University has one open PhD position for Spring 2014.  The research in ACML is focused on the implementation of advanced finite element and meshfree methods for the computational modeling of materials with complex geometries, corrosion, damage/fracture mechanics, and multi-physics simulations.

IGA 2014: Isogeometric Methods – Integrating Design and Analysis, a USACM/ICES thematic conference, will take place at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin, on January 8-10, 2014 (see attachment). For further information, please contact: info [at] usacm.org

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 I am trying to model pullout behaviour in abaqus. i generated my 3d model with the help of texgen and i am applying velocity b.c.s to simulate pullout. I am expecting that NFORC beneath the point of applying velocity will give the pullout load. am i correct?. If not, wat will fetch my query?

if my sum up the reactions at the boundary i may not get the pullout load becoz of the frictional force between the fabric interface. 

Hello,

I  want to solve some problem from solid mechanics by means of meshless methods. Do you know some interpolation/approximation method which is able to accurate evaluate 3rd and 4th derivations of the shape functions and is not difficult to implement? MLS or PIM have problem with accuracy in these derivatives, as is known.

Thank you very much for your advices.

Hi

I have imported my Hypermesh model to abaqus. While running the .inp file I am getting the error message  the keyword is misplaced in definition of surface.

Can anyone tell that what is the exact sequence to define the surface in .inp file.

I am attaching my input and error message file.

hellow

i need  how to configue abaqus to fortran 

abaqus 6.11 pr3

intel visuel fortran 11

microsoft visuel 10

problem with : Problem during compilation - ifort.exe not found in PATH.

please !

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14786435.2013.807027?journal…

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11661-012-1364-5

Hi everyone 

I am learning the polycrystalline crystal plasticity and testing material in ABAQUS and UMAT. Now I am trying to build a RVE by using the truncated octahedrons as the grain shape or Voronoi tessellations.

For truncated octahedrons, I built a truncated octahedrons and assembled them into the grain aggregate in the .inp file, and assign orientations in the UMAT based on the part's name. However, I found it hard to define their interaction between grains. What is their interaction properties and how to define the contact pair in an automatic way?