Solids that are driven beyond their elastic limit exhibit strongly disspative and irreversible dynamical behaviors. Such behaviors call for the development of nonequilibrium approaches that go beyond standard equilibrium thermodynamics. In a recent work we have developed an internal-variable, effective-temperature non-equilibrium thermodynamics for glass-forming and polycrystalline materials driven away from thermodynamic equilibrium by external forces [1, 2]. The basic idea is that the slow configurational (structural) degrees of freedom of such materials are weakly coupled to the fast kinetic-vibrational degrees of freedom and therefore these two subsystems can be described by different temperatures during deformation. The configurational subsystem is defined by the mechanically stable positions of the constituent atoms, i.e. the "inherent structures", and is characterized by an effective temperature. The kinetic-vibrational subsystem is defined by the momenta and the displacements of the atoms at small distances away from their stable positions, and is characterized by the bath temperature.

Hi everyone!

I've been trying ansys for a few weeks but in vain. I'm trying to inject a heat source(laser) on a 2D rect plate. I'm not sure on the corrct way to add the boundary conditions. This is what I do:

1. assuming room temp so i added 298K to the bottom, left and right using define loads >add_temp>lines

I have an investigation on glass fracture in fire.

I have a fortran program and it can calculate the thermal stress with steady-state temperature and force load using finite element method, Now I want to change it to transient temperature and force load.

I wonder which method should be taken? I'd like to calculate the fracture at last.

Please help me! 

Thank you very much.

you can email to me : q.wang@kingston.ac.uk or pinew@163.com

QS Wang

An Australian Research Council funded PhD Scholarship is available in the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in Australia in the area of computational mechanics. The objective of this project is to develop a multi-scale bifurcation-based decohesion model within the framework of the Material Point Method (MPM), one of the meshfree methods, for simulating glass fragmentation under blast loading. The proposed multi-scale decohesion model will be calibrated by combining molecular dynamics and continuum mechanics approaches, and the simulation results will be verified by available experimental data.