Node rotation in UEL definition
Hi everyone,
I'm working on UEL and recently I've developed a shell element. To define an element in input file, I'm using counter-clockwise rotation for nodes. When it's just one element everything is good.
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exponential softening cohesive zone (ABAQUS)
Hi everyone,
what is the exponential curve used in ABAQUS to model the softening (damage evolution) for cohesive interaction? Reading the documentation, I find the equation for D (damage variable) in linear and exponential cases. But the exponetial curve is not given there (maybe it is not given explicitly).
Thanks,
Amir
Clarification on creep
Hello,
My work is related to creep in ceramics. Often I find the relation between the creep strain rate and stress as:
creep_strain_rate = constant x stress x other_factors (1)
Dynamic response and localisation in strongly damaged waveguides
In this paper, we investigate the formation of band-gaps and localisation phenomena in an elastic strip nearly disintegrated by an array of transverse cracks. We analyse the eigenfrequencies of finite, strongly damaged, elongated solids with reference to the propagation bands of an infinite strip with a periodic damage.
Theme Articles on Micromechanics may Interest you ——Published on Acta Mechanica Sinica
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Welcome to theme articles on Micromechanics published on SCI-indexed journal http://ams.cstam.org.cn.
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Theme Articles on Micromechanics
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Postdoc position in computational mechanics
A postdoc position on process modelling of additive manufacturing is availble in Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Please see the attached document for details and how to apply.
Ask for Hosford and AH. Cottrell book
hello Dear friends
for doing my phd thesis I need two books titled" mechanic of crystals and textured polycrystals" from W.F. Hosford and " dislocation and plastic flow in crystals" from AH. Cottrell. if anyone has these books please send for me or direct me to related links.
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Could you tell me know which criteria if satisfied, the abaqus give this error "one of your elements distorted excessively"?
For test reasons of abaqus work, I have defined my material properties (stress-strain behaviour) up to strains of 15! However, even in this condition some of my elements reaches this strain value and distorted. I want to know which calculation the abaqus software is using to report a distortion error?
Actually can we define our material behaviour in a way that, it would not distorted at all?
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