I am studying crack simulations.I am familar with ansys,and i know franc3d files could output into ansys files ,but i don't know how. I just get .fem files from franc3d. But how could .fem files be read into ansys?  Could anyone give me some details?  I'll be very grateful.

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Hi ,everyone I find this page very useful ,it has many free mechanical luctures,maybe you well find something useful like me .Please enjoy!

http://worldofmz.blogspot.com/search/label/Mechanical

This might be a stupid question but, is it possible to apply loads on a deformed shape in ANSYS? (after applying a set of loads, getting the deformed shape  and applying another set of loads on the deformed shape)

could you please give me a reference about multiscale fluid mechanics?

After some conversation with Roozbeh which are "irritatingly useful" :) I found that this site has done already all the calculations we need http://www.scimagojr.com/  except the list of highlycited papers which remains for me the most interesting aspect and which we seem to need to do manually as we did yesterday with IJSS and JMPS at Most cited papers and H-factor of some mechanics journals -- IJSS

Some results are attached as a big PDF file.

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