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Crack tip mesh size - Interface cracks ?

Submitted by shreeram111 on
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Hello everybody,

                   I am working on FE Simulation of interface cracks. To this end, I use modified VCCT, CSDEM and other such methods to determine mesh independent strain energy release rate (G) and Mode mixity (ψ). Now I have a fundamental doubt.

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Asking for help in BAJA SAE Car

Submitted by Marwan Shehata on
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Hello,I've joined a racing contest for Off-Road cars , called Baja SAE ( Society of Automotive Engineers)

The car contains tubes that are welded together or attached together by flanges

I am familiar with Abaqus and ANSYS btw

What are the main aspects that we should consider in modeling and simulating a baja sae car ?

Can you help me with this?

Negative Eigenvalues due to Mesh Refinement

Submitted by RobsterMech on
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I will keep my post brief to begin with.

 

The model consists of 7 rectangular interference fits (with 2 of the surfaces in direct interference).  The model appears to be working perfectly fine at simulating the stresses induced due to the fits for a variety of mesh sizes.  Once the mesh sizing of the slave components is reduced to below 0.4 the job fails due to experiencing negative eigenvalues.

 

To summarize - how can mesh refinement cause cause failure in a working model?

What modifications are to be implemented, if the shear strain of a degenerated shell element is modified with (-2*w/Rxy)?

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I had implemented Degenerated shell element by Ahmad et. al (1970). This element performs very poor in case of geometries like rectangular hyperbolic paraboloidal shells. When I modified the strain vector (only shear strain) with a additional -2*w/Rxy (Sahoo and Chakraborty, J. Strain Analysis (2004)), the solutions are not ok. Can you please suggest me if any other things I should be careful?

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