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Fracture mechanics in ABAQUS

Submitted by Dipak Rakshit on

I am new in this forum.I am trying to model Fibre reinfored Polymer

fracture in ABAQUS . But, In website I could not find any example for

that.I have done fracture model for isotropic material such as

Alluminium using Contour Integral.But, for this FRP I am being unable to

model   it.What should be my consideration (different from isotropic)

using this contour integral.I want a tensile matrix cracking or

matrix-fibre interface cracking or fibre cracking. Please help me in

this regard.

Composite Layup ABAQUS

Submitted by s_gupta on

Hi, 

I'm trying to do simulation of a standard shear test of a composite specimen. Hence I'm using the composite layup  to create the section of my specimen. But I'm getting the following error no matter what i do. I have even tried the following tutorial but still I'm getting the same error. The link to the tutorial - https://sites.google.com/site/abaqus2010/tutorial_1/tutorial_1-3c.  

I'm stuck here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance :)

selected papers on fracture in layered materials

Submitted by kilading on

Dear All,

 Currently I am working on the fracture property in layered material and I am focusing on the situation when crack is perpendicular to 

interface. I have read the paper by Dr. Hutchinson and Dr. Suo. If you know any paper that is focusing on the crack perpendicular to the 

interface, please tell me.

 

Thanks and Regards,

 Ding 

Weyl Geometry and the Nonlinear Mechanics of Distributed Point Defects

Submitted by arash_yavari on

In this paper we obtain the residual stress field of a nonlinear elastic solid with a spherically-symmetric distribution of point defects. To our best knowledge, this is the first nonlinear solution for point defects since the linear solution of Love in the 1920s.

A new postdoctoral position in the mechanics of glassy/amorphous materials

Submitted by Eran Bouchbinder on

A new postdoctoral position in the mechanics of glassy/amorphous materials is
available at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The project will focus on
strongly non-linear phenomena such as cavitation, shear-banding and fracture,
with applications to Bulk Metallic Glasses, and will involve advanced