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AFM modelling

Submitted by ravi5kumar on

Hi, every body...

Can anyone please tell me about the kind of modelling that is done to study the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) ?

I have gone through the lumped mass models, but I want to know about the distributed models ?

Is anyone having some papers or links related to distributed modelling of AFM ?

Thank You......

MODELING OF FGM IN ABAQUS

Submitted by ravitejk4u on

hello every one,

      i am Ravitej, doing my Mtech at IIT kanpur, India. Now, i am working  on FGM( funtionally Graded Materails). Can i model the FGM as a layered specimen with the youngs modulus varying according to layers. is there any special elements in abaqus, so that we can assign property variation along the thickness. 

Problem that i had faced with the layerd model is

1) stress is not continous at the interface of layers, then how can we believe that the solution obtained is correct

velocity potential for a rate formulation

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I have a question making me no sleep. In the elastic theory we have a separable Lagrangian L = T(v) + W(u) since we can write the internal elastic energy as a function of displacements. What happens if we use a rate form for the strain and the stress? Can we write the potential energy in terms of just velocities? If that is the case the stationary path of the Lagrangian reduces to:

 d/dt (dT/dv - dW/dv)  = 0

Ten commandments in systems biology

Submitted by Joseph X. Zhou on

The 5th European Conference
on Complex System is holding in Dresden, Germany now. This is really
an emerging research area. The multiple para-sessions themselves show
how diverse and multi-disciplined it is. It includes:

  • Complex system method

  • Cognition

  • Networks

  • Social system

  • Biological system

Musings on continuum thermodynamic formalism and (yet another) damage model

Submitted by Amit Acharya on

A technique for setting up generalized continuum theories based on a balance law and nonlocal thermodynamics is suggested. The methodology does not require the introduction of gradients of the internal variable in the free energy. Elements of a generalized damage model with porosity as the internal variable are developed as an example.