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Discuss Safety in wind energy

Submitted by Omololu Oyebola on

In the nearest
future, wind power is likely to be a major contributor towards renewable energy
targets (Scottish Planning Policy). However turbine fire, blade snapping due to
lightening, ice pile-up on blades, noise issues, ecology impact, aviation,
shadows flickering are major showstoppers and setbacks to this renewable energy
option. Making wind safety entails a lot and they include the following

Electric analysis in abaqus

Submitted by anilshirahatti on

Hi,

I want to do an electro-mechanical analysis in abaqus. The specimen is a steel block of 50 x 50 x 20 mm with a groove/slot of 4 x 25 x 20 mm as shown in attached image.

I want to pass 20 amps current at location shown in red and then check the voltage drop at location shown in blue colour. Please can guide me the how to do this analysis in abaqus.

Thanks

Anil Shirahatti

Summer School on Advances in Finite Element Methods

Submitted by mac on
The Summer School on Advances in Finite Element Methods will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 14-18 Jan 2013.

The website www.fesummerschool.co.za contains details such as registration, accommodation, lecturers and the schedule. 

The objective of this summer school is first, to provide the necessary background in the mathematics of finite elements, and second, to build on this background by addressing the topics of adaptivity and discontinuous Galerkin methods.



Topic 11: Why is the FAR and SIR measures of fatality considered poor measures from the organisation perpective.

Submitted by oseghale lucas… on

Discuss why the FAR and SIR measures of fatality rate in an organization perpective is considered a poor measure of assessment of fataliy rates within the organisation.

COMSOL with stiffness or constitutive matrix extraction

Submitted by gx1492 on

Hello, all:

    Can anyone please help me how to deal with the following problem in COMSOL? Thanks a lot.

    How to extract the global stiffness matrix [K] or material constitutive matrix [D_ep] for each load increment after convergence using MATLAB?

   Thanks again.

 

Regards,

Xu

Topic 10: ONGC Mumbai High Accident (July 27, 2005 @ West Coast of India)

Submitted by a.bhardwaj.12 on

The Mumbai High Field was discovered in 1974 and is located in the Arabian Sea. The field is divided into two blocks, North and South. It had the capacity of 180,000 barresls per day. It is operated by state owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC), and is protected by one private company and Indian Navy.