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J integral variation through thickness in tubes with through-wall circumferential crack, calculated with Abaqus/CAE

Submitted by Marcos Bergant on

Dear friends: I am a PhD candidate studying fracture problems in tubes. I am doing J integral calculations in Abaqus, for tubes with through-wall circumferential cracks subjected to tensile and bending loads. I am using quadratic 20 nodes isoparametric elements with reduced integration (C3D20R), ranging from two to five elements through the wall thickness mesh.

career as computational seismologist

Submitted by p_azizi on

Dear Mechanicians,

I have got an offer to do PhD in computational seismology in a very good university in Europe, however, I have no idea what sort of career I should expect after getting my PhD in this field. I got my BSc and MSc in mechanical engineering but have never worked in the field of geophysics and seismology. Therefore I am hesitating whether to take the offer or not. 

Strain rate values

Submitted by tonesthomas on

Can anyone guide me in clearing this doubt? I would like to get the values of normalized flow stresses Vs Strain rate for 304 L stainless steel and Ti-6Al-4V. This values will be used as an input for simulating fan blade-out event. This values will be used since this process involves higher velocities, higher deformations and it occurs in less time.

i am getting error when i try to solve shell model-in abaqus 6.11-1

Submitted by sathish98545 on

Below is the error i get when i try to solve shell model.

please explain why and how to over come this issue. my model contains nealry 8lakh element. It has contacts,rigid beam used for screws, distributed coupling for load,

 ***ERROR: THE PROBLEM IS TOO LARGE TO RUN WITH Abaqus. TYPICALLY THIS IS

           CAUSED BY THE EXISTENCE OF A VERY LARGE ELEMENT SUCH AS A

           SUBSTRUCTURE WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF RETAINED DOF, A LARGE CAVITY IN

Computational homogenization of linear viscoelastic materials: a simplified approach

Submitted by Julien Yvonnet on

Several methods have been proposed for numerical homogeniation of linear viscoelastic materials, mainly based on Laplace transform or on multilevel (FE^2) approaches. In this paper, we introduce a much simpler technique based on a discrete representation of the effective relaxation tensor related to the homogeneous medium, which can then be used to evaluate the constitutive law in the form of a convolution product. In practice, calculations on the RVE reduce to 3 transient simulations in 2D and 6  in 3D. More details in

stress wave propagation problem in Abaqus/Explicit VUMAT

Submitted by Ahmad Falahatpisheh on

Hello All,



I have written a user material behavior using VUMAT for hyperelastic materials.



I am validating VUMAT on a flat square plate.



1. The plate is subjected to uniaxial loading.

2. It has 4 structured quad elements.

3. One side of the plate is fixed and the opposite side is subjected to shell edge load.

4. The element is of type S4R.



Postdoctoral Position in Solid Mechanics

Submitted by ravishm on

The Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh anticipates an opening for a postdoctoral associate starting January 2012. The position’s primary area of research will focus on mechanics of micro-scale deformation processes and characterizing the thermomechanics of deformation at micrometer length-scales. Applicants with a strong background in computational solid mechanics and crystal plasticity will be preferred. 

Interested Applicants are requested to Email their CV to:  ravishm [at] pitt [dot] edu