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Plane stress Drucker-Prager plasticity (part 1)

Submitted by Biswajit Banerjee on Fri, 03/03/2017 - 20:16

New blog post: Plane stress Drucker-Prager plasticity (part 1): http://www.parresianz.com/mechanics/plasticity/algorithm/plane-stress-d…

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Politecnico di Milano creates a large debate in Italy with its decision to teach only in English

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on Mon, 02/27/2017 - 07:40

Recently, Politecnico di Milano in Italy has attempted to force all teaching at Master level in English. This has been stopped by some academics who went to different levels of administrative courts, and recently there was a prononciation of the Supreme Court. The matter is not settled yet, but you can find an account of this with various links here.

What's the difference between Cohesive Zone Model and Joints Element in discrete element method?

Submitted by xi xun on Sat, 02/25/2017 - 23:55

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Hi,

I am a PhD student working on rock mechanics. I have studied Cohesive Method for a few times. But I am confused on What the special functions the Cohesive element have compared with Discrete method?

For one DEM software UDEC， model is consisted of solid elements and joints elements. What's the difference between Cohesive element and Goodman element?

Learn fluid mechanics or thermodynamics ?

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Fundamentals of Simpleware Training (full day), UK, Feb 7th 2017

Submitted by Simpleware on Tue, 01/24/2017 - 16:40

When: Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Where: Synopsys Reading Training Centre, 100 Brook Drive, Green Park, Reading, RG2 6UJ, United Kingdom

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This one-day intensive training course intends to give new and existing users sufficient knowledge of the basic functionality of Simpleware software. It will allow you to develop workflows based your areas of research and future projects.

Harmonic analysis with a crack?

Submitted by shreeram111 on Mon, 12/19/2016 - 09:40

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Hello everybody,

I am trying to perform a harmonic analysis of a material sample (say a simple 2D plate) with an edge crack in it using 'Ansys R16'. I see that under sinusoidal loading condition, the two crack faces open or close and interpenetrate (after closing which is not possible practically).