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Shell-to-Solid submodeling in ANSYS (APDL)

Submitted by Reza Afshar on
Dear All

I have a question regarding Shell-to-Solid submodeling in ANSYS (APDL). I have followed the ANSYS help, but even for the same geometry used by ANYS, the stress values on the submodel are very high and at the wrong position.

I was wondering if any one has a tutorial on Shell-to-Solid submodeling in ANSYS (APDL) or any hints regading this type of submodeling?

Thank you in advance

Reza 

Graduate Research Assistant (PhD student) position in ME @ Georgia Tech

Submitted by aerturk on

We are seeking a motivated PhD student (only a student currently in the US for an immediate start) to work as a Graduate Research Assistant in our NSF project titled "Metamaterial-Enhanced Electroelastoacoustic Energy Harvesting for Sensor Systems." This computational and experimental project will investigate electroelastoacoustically coupled linear and nonlinear metamaterial-inspired piezoelectric energy harvesting concepts for self-powered sensor systems.

UMAT

Submitted by 850363873 on

Hi

Im a new user of abaqus subroutine.

Does anyone have some experience on using UMAT to do dynamic analysis?

 

 

Thanks

Hamed

hmdqasemi [at] gmail.com

Weakness

Submitted by mohammedlamine on

Hi all,

There are several formulae allowing the computation of tetrahedral volume elements. The weakness of some of them is that they give negative volumes. This is due to the vector dot product and its direction. You must take care when using them.

You have to check your formula with some simple examples like the vertices of the following one: (1,0,0) , (0,1,0) , (0,0,1) , (0,0,0). 

 

Mohammed lamine Moussaoui 

PhD opportunity at the University of Southampton, UK/EU students only

Submitted by Fabrice Pierron on

The project deals with the development of a novel procedure for quantitative validation of finite element simulations with full-field optical strain measurements like digital image correlation. The work will be shared between numerical simulations and experimental work. This project has strong industrial relevence. Please note that the project can only be offered to EU/UK students.

Postdoctoral Position Available at University of Western Ontario,Canada

Submitted by Zhi Yan on

Position is available (starting from
January 2014) for a postdoctoral fellow to carry out an industry sponsored
project on carbon fiber composite modeling in Prof. Liying Jiang’s lab at the
Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department of the University of Western
Ontario in Canada. The contract is initiated for one year, with possible
extension if work progresses satisfactorily. The research will focus on (1)
micromechanics modeling of elastic and viscoplastic behavior of injection
molded carbon fiber composites; (2) homogenization techniques and constitutive model
development for vibration, strength and impact simulations of carbon fiber

Live Webinar - July 30 - Design Exploration and Optimization

Submitted by Twebb83 on

Isight 5.8 - Live Webinar July 30, 9 AM EDT and 12 pm EDT. The latest release, Isight 5.8 provides simulation process automation and design optimization solutions that enable users to reduce analysis time and costs while improving product performance, quality, and reliability.  When used in conjunction with the SIMULIA Execution Engine (SEE), Isight customers can build a web-based framework for distributing the execution of simulation processes across the enterprise to optimize computing resources and to enable collaboration among geographically distributed users.

Postdoctoral Position Available at Northwestern University

Submitted by keten on

A postdoctoral associate position is available immediately at the Computational Nanodynamics Group at Northwestern University. This research project focuses broadly on the atomistic and meso-scale modeling of biomolecular materials and their interfaces with engineered polymers. Nanostructural predictions, self-assembly studies, and simulations of mechanofunctional behavior constitute the scope of the project.