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Active Topographic Surface Renewal

Submitted by Pocivavsek on

Check out our new work on topography driven surface renewal published in Nature Physics:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0193-x

We are building a new dynamic group at University of Chicago bringing together physicists, surgeons, and engineers to tackle some of the most

challenging problems in tissue/material interfaces with the goal of improving on many current medical devices. 

Error using Neo-hookean in abaqus

Submitted by Jaswanth_kumar on

Hi everyone,

I am trying to solve a problem of twisting a hyperelastic material(compressible neo-hookean) in abaqus. 

The problem has been taken from 10.12.5 TWISTING COLUMN in the textbook NONLINEAR SOLID MECHANICS FOR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS: STATICS (Javier Bonet,Antonio J. Gil,Richard D.Wood).

Lamda and mu are given as 100 each, so I have calculated the Neo-hookean coefficients for abaqus which came out to be C10=50 and D1=0.012

I am using abaqus static-general with time steps of 

*Step, name=Step-1, nlgeom=YES, inc=10000

Anomalous bulging behaviors of a dielectric elastomer balloon under internal pressure and electric actuation

Submitted by tongqing.lu on

When a clamped membrane of elastomer is subject to a lateral pressure, it bulges into a hemispherical balloon. However, for a clamped membrane of dielectric elastomer (DE) under a lateral pressure as well as a voltage through the thickness, it may bulge into a regular hemispherical balloon or an irregular shape. This work focuses on the anomalous bulging behaviors (i.e. the irregular bulging shape) of a DE balloon under electromechanical coupling loading.

orthotropic

Submitted by vbabbas on

hello all.

I work on the plates laminate orthotropic, in the calculation of the constatnte of rigidities I found two matrices of rigidity which are mantionent on the two figures following:

somebody can explain to me which is the matrix right, and thank you by advance.