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suggest a proposal
Hi everyone,
I'm a master student of mechanical engineering in the field of applied design.
I am looking for a good proposal to convince the university to accept that for
my final research. I appreciate that anyone can help me with this.
thank you
Research Associate Opening at The British University in Egypt
The Center for Advanced Materials (CAM) at the British University in Egypt (BUE) has an opening for full time Research Associate to fill immediately. BUE is located in El-Shorouk City, 30 km east of Cairo and provides a UK work environment. Information about BUE and CAM can be found at www.bue.edu.eg and cam.bue.edu.eg.
Description: To work on aproject related to modeling of composite materials and structures. The project focuses on micromechanics, multifunctional constituents and finite element implementation of developed models.
Reinforced concrete beam in ANSYS 11
Hello,
I am trying to model a reinforced concrete beam in ANSYS 11. This software is new to me and I am having some problem in defining the reinforcement using the software. I have found some of the similar work in ANSYS have used SOLID 65 for concrete and LINK 8 for reinforcement. But I don't know how to input the link element as reinforcement. Since I am just starting to use ANSYS, can somebody please help me by providing some of the basic steps to model a reinforced concrete beam?
Thanks.
Teaching FEM to Biologists/Medics
All,
Could anyone recommend courses, online materials or text books that
would be suitable for teaching the finite element method to someone with
a non-engineering background. This request is on behalf of an MD
student wishing to use the FEM for modelling the wrist. We're initially
looking for introductory materials.
Best regards
Lee
The "Goldilocks" Effect in Fossilized Dinosaur Trackways
The following paper is now online:
Falkingham P.L., Bates K.T., Margetts L. and Manning P.L. (2011) "The
'Goldilocks' effect: Presevational bias in vertebrate track
assemblages", Journal of the Royal Society Interface
See: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/01/12/rsif.20…
Authors welcome any comments for future studies!
Programme available for 4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues
Programme available for 4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues
www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/conference-programme.html
11-15 December 2011, Marriott Waikoloa Beach Resort and Spa, Hawai’i
Submit your abstract by 15 April 2011
www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com
Import a plot from Matlab into Abaqus
Dear all,
I would like to ask you how is it possible to import into Abaqus from Matlab a plot for the geometry of my specimen.How should I save my workspace and what changes should I make to the file to be an input file for Abaqus?
Regards,
Panos
WOM 2011 - The 18th International Conference on Wear of Materials - New speakers announced
Two further speakers have been announced for the Wear of Materials conference: Dr Gary Doll and Prof Greg Sawyer. The conference will take place in Philadelphia, USA, April 3-7, 2011
To read their biographies, go to http://www.wom-conference.elsevier.com/speakers.asp
Defining general contact in axisymmetric analysis with share node cohesive elements
Dear All,
I am am using share node cohesive element in axisymmetric analysis. I want to use friction between two joined blocks when cohesive elements break. I tried this with using general contact definition in Abaqus 6.8. To do so, I am defining element based surface but while running the simulation the abaqus gives following error:
***ERROR: *CONTACT currently does not support the use of 2D surfaces.
Can anyone help to find out what can be wrong with my surface definition.
With regards and best wishes,
Prabhat