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Help with surface stress on microcantilever

Submitted by Lim Yang Choon on

Hi all,

I'm a PhD student with Electronics Engineering background. I'm doing a research in microcantilever based biosensors.

I'm having difficulties in understanding the adsorption-induced stress in microcantilever.

I would appreciate any advice or pointers on what materials that I can refer to. Besides that, what is the software that I can use to simulate this adsorption phenomenon? 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Cheers,

Yang

 

please help for postbuckling analysis in ANSYS

Submitted by Talha Ekmekyapar on
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I am trying to perform postbuckling analysis of plates in ANSYS. But something confuses my mind. After linear buckling analysis I use scaled firtst buckling mode shape to generate initial imperfections. Then I initiate nonlinear geometric analysis by NLGEOM command. Collapse load or final converged iteration changes according to NSUBST option. I am trying to give higher Substep to obtain more sensitive and reliable results like 10000. But NSUBST with 100 sometimes reaches higher loads than using 10000. Which one is a correct approach?

Could anyone help me?

NDE residual stress

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The residual stress in a metal do not depend on its hardness, but from the module of elasticity or Young module and from its chemical composition (density).

In search of articles on mesoscale FE modeling of sintering

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Hi. I'm now starting my PhD on a project on sintering of hard metal.

I'm doing a literature study, but I have failed to find any articles that uses FE analysis on the micro/mesoscale. All of them seems to handle this only with a homogenized model on the macroscale.
If I get to be picky, I would prefer something with hardmetal, but at this point, anything would be great.
I would also be very happy to find any suitable reading on FE-analysis on solid-liquid-pore mixtures.

Failure Surface Graphics in Stress Space

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 A new section has been added to the website on failure criteria for engineering materials.  This new work displays many different three-dimensional computer graphics of failure criteria surfaces in stress space. The full range of isotropic materials are covered from ductile metals to brittle ceramics and glasses and beyond.  All of these computer generated graphics can be seen at www.failurecriteria.com/failuresurfacegr.html.

 

Prof. Ares Rosakis has been elected to a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009

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Solid mechanician and Caltech Faculty Member Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Caltech professor Ares Rosakis, is among the 210 new fellows elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences this year. They join an assembly that was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholars to provide practical solutions to pressing issues.



Geometric non-linearity basic question

Submitted by kajalschopra on

Hi,

I've been reading the book on Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis by Crisfield and have the following questions:

1.Considring the equation 1.10 in Crisfield's book on page 4, it is:

Kt = EA/l (z/l)^2 + EA/l (2zw + w^2/ L^2) + N/L

where:

Kt->is the tangent stiffness matrix

z->in itial displacement

L->Length of the bar-as an approximation the undeformed length of the bar is considered.

N->internal force in the bar.