WOM 2013 - Call for Paper deadline 1 June 2012
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Blog posts
Rupture of a highly stretchable acrylic dielectric elastomer (VHB)
Dielectric elastomer transducers are often subject to large tensile stretches and are susceptible to rupture. Here we carry out an experimental study of the rupture behavior of membranes of an acrylic dielectric elastomer (VHB 4905). Pure-shear test specimens are used to measure force-displacement curves, using samples with and without pre-cracks. We find that introducing a pre-crack into a membrane drastically reduces the stretch at rupture. Furthermore, we measure the stretch at rupture and fracture energy using samples of different heights at various stretch-rates. The stretch at rupture is found to decrease with sample height, and the fracture energy is found to increase with stretch-rate.
This paper has appeared in the Journal of Applied Physics and can be downloaded from:
Modelling crack propagation using XFEM in Abaqus (Fracture Mechanics)
HI,
I am using XFEM to model crack propagation in thin aluminum panles using ABAQUS. The reason for modelling it is to check my numerical model against the results published by Lyonel Reinhardt, t, J.A. Cordes in the paper XFEM Modeling of Mixed-Mode Cracks in Thin Aluminum Panels (http://www.3ds.com/fileadmin/PRODUCTS/SIMULIA/PDF/scc-papers/Def-XFEM-Modeling-Mixed-Mode-Cracks-Thin-Aluminum-Panels.pdf)
Umat/Vumat
Hello Everybody
Can anyone help a beginner to learn how to write a Umat/Vumat subroutine in ABAQUS step by step?
Thank you
Meshing with UEL/UMAT element
Hello All,
Does anyone have any idea how to automate meshing using USER DEFINED ELEMENTS (for Example UEL) in Abaqus using python. Actually I need to mesh an arbitrary shaped structure with 9-Node Quadrilateral Element. Abaqus doesn't support meshing of 9 Node Quad Element (S9R) either.
Ansys Workbench Scripting guide : all classes and methods
I am looking for the Ansys Workbench Scripting guide where all python accostomed classes and methods are documented for ANSYS WB.
Please send me a link if anybosy is having the same.
Thanks in advance!!
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine VII: a MICCAI 2012 satellite workshop (Nice, October 01). Submission Deadline: 22 June
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine VII: a MICCAI 2012 satellite
workshop (paper submission deadline extended till 22 June 2012)
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Call for papers
Computational Biomechanics for Medicine (http://school.mech.uwa.edu.au/CBM2012/,
Abaqus problem
Hi,
I am using a bridge model with Tet element as mesh in the structure. I have given many static loads in deck surface . After submitting 'Job' gets stresses of different element label of the deck as report. I want to now calculate the volume of single element (tet element) so that I become successful in calculting the damaged volume due to the load. Is there any option to get the volume of the meshed elements.
Thanks in anticipation.
Nidz....
Saint-Venant's Principe of the " Cavity in Cylinder " Problem
The problem of a cylinder with a small spherical cavity loaded by an
equilibrium system of forces is suggested and discussed and its formulation of Saint-Venant's Principle is established. It is evident that finding
solutions of boundary-value problems is a precise and pertinent approach
to establish Saint-Venant type decay of elastic problems.
Ares Rosakis, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, ASME
Awards will be presented at the AMD Banquet, scheduled on Tuesday, 13 November 2012, during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, to be held in Houston, Texas, 9-15 November 2012 at the Hilton Americas and the George R. Brown Convention Center.
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