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Dear Guys!

I'm wanna model the concrete plasticity in abaqus and is it possible to tell me which element type should I use for Concrete modeling?

Regards.

Dear All

I'm working on studing the use of metal foam in sandwich structre containing Al or steel plate to overcome an impact shells or plates at differnet impact velocity but the prblem that I face how to define the failure critrion of Meat foam except difine the crushable foam properties, and I've read a paper on using cohesive element but i don'nt know how to use it.

Hopefully some one can help me solving this prblem, by the way I'm using ABAQUS v6.6

Regards

Hi this is Tim, final year undergraduate student .can anyone tell me why we need time integration for plasticity (hardening).As i am undergraduate student my knowledge is very limited so could you please let me know from basics. Also what does explicit and implict integration  mean in the application of  plasticity?

THanks in advance,

Tim

This is my final project.

The paper titled "The Study by Mr. Wu etc  Concerning Saint-Venant’s Principle is Insignificant" reviewed the series of four works of “proof of Saint-Venant’s Principle” published by Wu etc .The four articles proved neither the discrete Saint-Venant type decay of section-forces of the finite elements in the chain model of discretization of the cylinder  nor  the discrete Saint-Venant-type decay of section-displacements, posed in their papers. Furthermore, the discrete Saint-Venant type  decay of section-forces  is not provable.

I am attaching a PDF of Alex and Alison's final presentation for ES 240.  The topic is "Arterial Compliance and Disease."

-Alex

Here is the powerpoint of the final project, presented by Stevie Steiner and myself.