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Bonding of Soft and Rigid Materials

Submitted by kvm7 on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 20:32

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I am workingon a model in which i have a soft layer of material bonded between to rigidlayers of material via cohesive elements following a linear separation-tractionlaw based on a critical fracture energy value I determined from experimentaland numerical work. I have the interlayer and cohesive elements as one partwith a partitioned face and connected to the two adherends viasurface-to-surface ties. I have found that my model runs successfully only ifthe soft interlayer material is made very stiff.

Cohesive Elements and Soft Materials

Submitted by kvm7 on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 20:25

I am working on a model in which i have a soft layer of material bonded between to rigid layers of material via cohesive elements following a linear separation-traction law based on a critical fracture energy value I determined from experimental and numerical work. I have the interlayer and cohesive elements as one part with a partitioned face and connected to the two adherends via surface-to-surface ties. I have found that my model runs successfully only if the soft interlayer material is made very stiff.

Natural Frequency Extraction in conjunction with UMAT in ABAQUS

Submitted by Vaibhav Yadav on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 23:13

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User subroutines in ABAQUS

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We are using the user subroutine UMAT in ABAQUS for varying the material properties in a thin plate. For any static analysis this subroutine is working perfectly fine. However, while using UMAT during natural frequency extraction, ABAQUS is not completing the analysis and is giving a very vague following error message in the log file:

Finite Element Modeling On Polymer Nanocomposite with Clay Nanofiller

Submitted by ANIL KUMAR on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 18:00

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I'm doing Mtech project on Finite Element Modeling On Polymer Nanocomposite with Clay Nanofiller. For that am using ABAQUS software, so i need some information regarding that ABAQUS software, how to do finite element modeling of nanocomposites with nanofiller and How to prepare a code distrubution in the plate like particales in the polymer matrix with ABAQUS software. So please can any give information.

Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, Vol 23 issue 6 online now

Submitted by C Amss on Thu, 01/06/2011 - 02:31

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Large Plastic Deformation in High-Capacity Lithium-ion Batteries

Submitted by Kejie Zhao on Wed, 01/05/2011 - 02:32

Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, Vol 23 issue 5 online now

Submitted by C Amss on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 00:44

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An International Journal: Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica (AMSS)

Submitted by C Amss on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 00:09

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Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica (AMSS) aims to become the best journal of solid mechanics in China and the known one in the world in the field of mechanics, by building up an international exchange platform for the ecological research; providing original, perspective and even breakthrough theories and methods for the research on solid mechanics in China and in the world; serving the sustainable development worldwide.

For more information please see: http://ees.elsevier.com/camss

Melosh Competition: 2nd Call for Abstracts

Submitted by John E. Dolbow on Mon, 01/03/2011 - 20:34

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This is the second call for abstracts for the 23nd Annual Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis. The deadline for the abstracts has been extended to January 14, 2011. Details of the competition and submission procedure can be found here.