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beam elements

Submitted by S0606 on
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hello,

I am modelling a pipeline using beam elements in ABAQUS and I would like to introduce some strain to the model.

I would like to introduce this strain so the pipeline forms a specified radius of curvature.

Can anyone help please.

Regards,

What is the Shore A hardness used for?

Submitted by Biswajit Banerjee on
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The Shore A and D hardness tests are widely used by the rubber industry.  However, I'm not sure what practical use these numbers can be put to during design.  My current feeling is that Shore hardness numbers can at best give you a feel for the texture of the rubber - a Shore A value of 5 = gummy bear texture, Shore A = 40 implies erasure texture etc.

Can someone explain how Shore hardness values can be used in the design of mechanical components made of rubber?

Thanks in advance,

Simple beam bending FEM vs. theory comparison error

Submitted by Raymond C. Singh on

I am having some trouble getting accurate values for max. stress and max. deflection for an FEM model of a simply supported I-beam in bending. I am using I-DEAS 12 NX to solve the model. I'm pretty new to finite element analysis as a whole, but I know that getting any more
than 10% error (relative to Euler beam theory) in max deflection or stress for a 60x10x8 in. should not happen. Strangely enough, using the same boundary conditions and meshing techniques for a 60x10x8 in. rectangular solid, I find the results I was expecting. Here are some more details:



Electromechanical screw driven Tensile machine

Submitted by aniruddha on
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I would like to know what is the role of data sampling, data capture rate and bandwidth in case of electromechanical static tensile test. What are their optimum values for a static tensile test of metals according to ASTM standards.

We are deciding to buy Instron 5567 series for 50kN. But we are unable to decide whether that high data acquisition rate, bandwidth is required. Please suggest.

Reaction moment in ABAQUS

Submitted by basark on

hello everyone

i dont have much experience in abaqus.now i am trying to a dynamic analysis of a small turbine which drives a wheel.

at present there is no load on the wheel. i am intrested in the rotational velocity of this wheel

 but i have no idea how do i measure the reaction moment from the wheel and apply it to the turbine at runtime(as a variable)

the turbine and the wheel are coupled with an equation constraint ,Is there any better way for modelling the transmission? 

excuse me if i am not clear and please help me out.

ABAQUS JOB STATUS PROBLEM...

Submitted by Nelson Faria on
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Hello ppl,

 

I'm having a problem with ABAQUS 6.7 EF. In the job monitor, wen I submit a job the Status stay premently in "Submited" even wen finish the processing. I just know that it finish, because the hard disk stops. Does any one know how can it be fixed??

 

 

How do I link the Intel compiler

Submitted by nitinchandola on

hi,

I was trying to run the first UMAT example in the Abaqus verification manual  ( umatmst.f is the file name). I imported the input file umatmst.inp and then ran umatmst.for

However it showed me an error saying ifort.exe missing. I have installed Intel Fortran compiler. So that error was removed. However on running the Abaqus verification I saw the following errors:

formatting ansys 'list nodal solution' output

Submitted by sicksenses on
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Hello,

Is there any way to change the output format when selecting 'postproc>list results>nodal solution' in ansys. I want to copy this data and load it in excel but there is text located throughout the file every 50 lines or so. The output contains something like 3000 nodal values and every 50 nodes or so the file has some redundant text. Therefore, if I want to manipulate the data i have to cut out the text which can take several hours if the file is large. Currently the output looks something like this:

381 853.15 0.39371 0.15505 852.99 852.87