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Does anybody have a simple example Program of bounding surface model, or electronic version of books reports..

Submitted by yannyin on

Hi, everyone

I just start my research on bounding surface model for soil mechanics. Does someone have documents about programming of bounding surface model for stress-strain behaviour with a piece of program? Thanks a lot for your help.

Parallel Computing in the Multi-Body System to Vehicle Dynamics?

Submitted by Xianfeng Ye on

Has someone worked on the parallel computing in the multibody system to the vehicle dynamics? It's what I am doing now. I am faced to make a choice, OpenMP or MPI? OpenMP is a little  easy to program, but with less portability. I prefer MPI and I think if it is a best choice to parallelize the constraint libraries, although it is a bit difficult to program. Am I right? Is anyone  also doing it now? Opinions and suggestions are welcome!

How to model a viscoelastic material on ANSYS?

Submitted by Emre on
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I am a mechanical engineer in Turkey in senior year. As a graduation project I have to model soft tissue cutting operation by using ANSYS. The main aim in the project is;

1.Choosing
the correct material properties (SOLID,SHELL etc.) and correct
method( Prony Series or Generalized Maxwell for
viscoelastic)

2.Creating a cylindirical model as an example
and than creating the orginial model as a representation of the soft
tissue(in this case the tissue must be some living organ ex:liver )

3.By
using the contact modeling (I learned that it requires to have some
detailed experience in writing subroutine) dividing the material into

Is there any computing module which can compute a heap of disk elements in DEM(discrete element method)?

Submitted by xiashengxu on

Is there any computing module which can compute a heap of disk elements in DEM(discrete element method)?it'd be better if it is written in matlab or C/C++. I'm doing research on the combined DEM-FEM. I need such module so as to save my time.

Thank you 

Mechanics of microtubule buckling in living cells

Submitted by Teng Li on

As the most rigid cytoskeletal filaments, microtubules bear compressive forces in living cells, balancing the tensile forces within the cytoskeleton to maintain the cell shape. It is often observed that, in living cells, microtubules under compression severely buckle into short wavelengths. By contrast, when compressed, isolated microtubules in vitro buckle into single long-wavelength arcs. The critical buckling force of the microtubules in vitro is two orders of magnitude lower than that of the microtubules in living cells.