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New introductory course in structural mechanics opens on edX

Submitted by ssocrate on

2.01x: Elements of Structures is a new introductory course in structural mechanics that just started on edX. Anybody can  register  to audit the course for free. 



Course material includes lecture videos, tutorials, example problems, recitation problems with video walkthrough, homework problems, "boardnotes" (condensed lecture notes) and synoptic tables.



Deformation gradient change in Abaqus

Submitted by ratgem.shetty on

Help needed!! in Abaqus

I have UMAT written to update stress and material tangent components for a user defined material model. I need stretch ratio as an input for my material model. For this I am using deformation gradient from UMAT. Problem is, when there is constant strain (strain rate = 0), for example when material stretched to 100% strain (rubber) and then held at that strain for certain time to see stress relaxation, the deformation gradient should give the same value of 100% strain, but to my surprise this is changing. Can any one help me with this.   

TMS- 2015 CALL FOR ABSTRACT (Symposium on Advances in Thin Films for Electronics and Photonics)

Submitted by Amit Pandey on

Meeting

2015 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Symposium

Advances
in Thin Films for Electronics and Photonics

Sponsorship

TMS
Functional Materials Division (formerly EMPMD)

TMS: Thin Films and Interfaces Committee

TMS- 2015 CALL FOR ABSTRACT (Symposium on HIGH TEMPERATURE SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE)

Submitted by Amit Pandey on

HIGH
TEMPERATURE SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE

 

TMS Division: Functional Material Division (FMD
formerly known as EMPMD)

FMD sub-committee: Energy Conversion and Storage

 

Organizers:

Homogenization - If materials in the model are isotropic, is it possible to get truly anisotropic resulting material?

Submitted by Artjoms Salikovs on

Hello,

I read that "In general, even if the materials on the micro-level are isotropic, the effective 

material can show anisotropic behavior. A general anisotropic linear elastic material 

may have twenty one independent material parameters.''

 

If I understand my results correctly then simple structures like ''ball in the unit cell'' result in orthotropic material.

I am a bit puzzled - what would be the simplest structure that would result in anisotropic material behaviour?