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Fundamental FE Question

Submitted by kajalschopra on

Hi,

This is a very fundamental question

I have a mesh of 2D elements

Now, I have been given a point and know its global coordinates.

I want to find out which element in my mesh includes that point.

Is there an easier way of doing it than looping through each element in my mesh?

 Please help

Stent/Artery contact Abaqus Explicit

Submitted by Slimjimmy on

Hi Everybody.



I'm modelling Nitinol stent crimp and expansion
into an idealised artery in Abaqus/Explicit. I am having numerous
problems with the ratio of kinetic energy to internal energy with the
analysis. I was hoping somebody may provide me with some insight on
this.



I am modelling the crimp stage using a C3D8 elements for
the stent and have defined a surface section for the crimper surface. I
am using kinetic contact and surface to node contact (surface to surface

ASME IMECE 2012: Symposium on Tribology of Thin Films and Small-Scale Structures

Submitted by Frank W. DelRio on

Dear Colleagues:

We are currently soliciting abstracts for the 2012 ASME IMECE conference on November 9-15, 2012 in Houston, TX.  The symposium is entitled Tribology of Thin Films and Small-Scale Structures and is part of the Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Fluids Track.

 

PhD Fellowship in “Risk and Reliability in Geotechnical Engineering"

Submitted by tmhle on

Topic: PhD Fellowship in “Risk
and Reliability of Offshore Wind Turbine Foundations”

Location: NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

Deadline: 09 Mar 2012

Salary: NOK 391 100 to NOK 448
100 per year (equivalent of approximately £43 000 to £50 000)

tsai wu failure criteria in ANSYS

Submitted by yashidanadir on

dear friends, i want to know how to get the tsai -wu failure criteria for orthotropic material in ANSYS.after modelling and giving the material properties ,should i give anything special to activate this option ,or will i get automatically this  criteria for all the elements from the output file itself.

please help me as my research work couldnt able to proceed.