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Hi,

I am reading papers on mathematical modeling of shape memory alloys.

I came across long- and short- range elastic interactions. What are these long- and short- range elastic interactions? and what are their significance?

Please share a good book to clarify these fundamentals.

 Thanks,

Rakesh 

Hello Everyone,

I am stucked in a very simple problem in ABAQUS. I have been trying to solve bending of a 3D beam in ABAQUS. The beam have dimension of 100 X 1 X  1, with properties of steel. One end of the beam is encastre and at the other end I am aplying concentrated load of -50KN on each top corners of the beam. But the problem I am facing is, with decreasing the mesh size, the displacement is increasing drastically and the results are not converging towards the analytic solution. Can anybody please suggest me , at what point am I making mistake.

Hi, i am trying to test a bulk metallc glass VUMAT with a simple compression test simulation. But since VUMAT is a Abaqus Explicit subroutine, that means I must set my compression simulation with setting of Abaqus Explicit right? So far I only have the experience in conducting compression test simualtion using ABAQUS Standard setting like static general step and surface-to-surface contact (standard). I don't know how to set up a simple compression test simulation with Abaqus Explicit settings, can anyone help me please?

Thanks and regards.

Hi everyone,

I am new to ABAQUS. I am working on a research topic where I need to study the temperature increase arised due to strains applied to a body. From the user's manual I understood that I need to use "Sequentially Coupled Thermal-Stress Analysis" for my model.

Hi all,

I am working  with an orphan mesh of a finger made up of:

1) elasitc epidermis layer

2) viscoelastic dermis layer

3) hyperelastic layer

4) bone

NLGEOM is turned on

Tie constraints re used between the layers and the bone

I wish to make this finger come into contact with a round object

however the job always fails as is does not converge.

Will anyone be able to advise on this matter?

Hi, I am doing a simulation of a reservoir, and I want  to calculate the water quantity on a boundary. But I find that it seems ABAQUS cannot output the results directly. If I were wrong, then how to output the seepage quantity, or if ABAQUS cannot do this, how can I get the result?

 Thanks!

Hello, Everyone!

     This is the first time that I come here to ask for help,so I wish that I can get the answer!

     I'm modeling with ABAQUS, My problem is how to use a subroutine which contains two external functions ?I need your help, Thank you!

Hello All!

Thanks for this opportunity. This is my first post at iMechanica. So, I'm wondering if some of you can help me with this: