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Young Huang has been selected to appear on ISIHighlyCited.com

Submitted by Hanqing Jiang on

Congratulations to Prof. Yonggang Huang who has been selected to appear on ISIHighlyCited.com because of his exceptional citation count in the field of Engineering.

 

http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=6498

Publicly-available fatigue test data

Submitted by Mike Graham on
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Can anyone help point me to publicly-available fatigue or fracture test data? I am interested in obtaining a variety of data for statistical processing. It seems many authors have used the data collected by Virkler and Hillberry which seems to be widely used, but I have not found raw data for their tests so far; is this data available somewhere for me to use? Any help is very appreciated.

Journal Club Theme of December 2009: Impact Behaviour of Materials with Cellular Structures

Submitted by Henry Tan on
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Welcome to the forum! Discussion topics were suggested initially as follow:

Metal foams, cell deformation (bending, buckling, plasticity and fracture), constitutive stress-strain behaviour of cellular materials, energy absorption, hypervelocity impact, shock wave behaviour, 1D shock modelling, shock attenuation, shock enhancement, Material Point Method (MPM) simulation and microscopic tomography experimental observation;

and later were extended to many related:

A new Technical Committee on Soft Materials

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

A growing number of mechanicians are entering the field of soft materials, such as polymers, gels, and tissues. While they interact with researchers in technical societies traditionally identified with the field, they also maintain connection with researchers in applied mechanics.

VUMAT for Nitinol --- why VUMAT and not UMAT?

Submitted by cece83 on

Dear all,

 I'm new in imechanica. I need some informations about VUMAT for Nitinol. I would like to implement in fortran a subroutine for the behaviour of shape memory alloy.I looked for some subroutines already implemented but they have been developed in the implicit way.

It's true that with the VUMAT(explicit) I could have some problems of stability and convergence.Could someone suggest me any reason to make this model in the VUMAT?I know that in VUMAT I can't redifine the time increment so before running the analysis It's important to pay attention on Dt.

Fracture mechanics

Submitted by vinay kumar B A on

hi all..

 

i am having one doubt, please help me.

 

In a isotropic plate,  if crack tip is present then to model the crack tip we use quarter point element ( IN ANSYS).

if we wants to model more than one crack tip than ,, ansys will give following error

" Only one stress concentration can be specified per area"

Please let me know what is the procedure to model more than one crack tip.

Thanking you

vinaya 

 

Help needed with interpretation of received P h curves during NANOINDENTATION

Submitted by Anna Dolgran on

Dear iMechanicas,

 

I just started doing nanoindentation tests on dry biological samples (wood) with a flat punch tip and I have problems analyzing the results! I would be happy if anybody could give me some suggestions.

While running a test I receive quiet good force-displacement curves (no adhesion, good surface find, no time-depend behavior) but the values for the recieved elastic modulus are not stable! The value scatters over the whole range of displacement.