University of Glasgow, Civil Engineering, Mechanics and Materials

 
Increased Reliability for Industrially Relevant Automatic Crack Growth Simulation with the eXtended Finite Element Method

 
http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/G042705/1 (Funding for £483k)

A unique EPSRC funded 4 year post-doc to investigate

- goal-oriented error estimation in XFEM

- adaptivity for 3D crack growth

The ASME Multifunctional Materials Technical Committee of the Materials Division is organizing a symposium on Multifunctional Material Systems at IMECE2009 to be held in Lake Buena Vista, FL, during Nov. 13-19, 2009.

Abstract submission deadline: March 2, 2009

Dear All,



Could somebody indicate me some literature about the topic "2D
approximation of heterogeneous 3D media"?



In particular I am interested to address following issues:



1) Under which conditions averaging thermal conductivity and young
modulus (or more general, mechanical behaviour) on multiple 2D crossections of an heterogeneous "random"
material can be a good approximation for the behaviour of the real 3D
microstructure

I am Neil. Please suggest some good texts for Explicit Finite Element Method. I would like to start with the basics and then go in depth, so that i can start some simple coding.

Thanks for any information you can offer. 

Symposium on Mechanics of Integrated Material Structures in Advanced and Emerging Technologies

Symposium on the

Mechanics of Biomembranes

at the

2009 Joint ASCE-ASME-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials, June 24-27, Blacksburg, VA

Hello Abaqus Users,

I am new to Abaqus: I am trying to model formation and propagation of fractures in glacial ice (note: ice deformation mainly by plastic flow). I was wondering if anyone has modeled ice as a material exhibiting a nonlinear behavior, or possibly have a user subroutine for ice that I could use. Thanks in advance for any help.

Daniel

Hello everybody,

I am solving a FE problem on a hetereogeneous medium consisting of rigid phase (Young modulus of about 100 000 N/mm2), a softer phase (Young modulus of 20 000 N/mm2) and pore (Young modulus of 1 N/mm2). The reason that I have to mesh the pore is that there are some elements of rigid phase hanging out in the pores. So, if I do not mesh the pore, then my FE matrix is singular. 

Just attended a FEMA introduction course put on by my provincial engineering assoc.  We all received a copy of Abaqus Student Edition.

When I install the program on my Toshiba Windows Vista laptop the installation completes but when I start the program and try to draw a part instead of getting a blue grid I get a second white drawing sheet overlaying the first.I have tried numerous installs and have all the latest Vista upgrades.  My copy of the DVD is good because the program works on my desktop computer.