How to improve the adhesion of epoxy coating on steel substrate? Which factor affects?

I am facing a problem regarding a de-adhesion problem with the coating. A brief description of my methodology is given below. I am using mild or Low Carbon steel as a substrate and I polish the...

14 February 2021 2,167 4 View

Can anyone help me with the problem of hyperelastic coefficients in abaqus?

Hello Everyone, I have done a uniaxial test on rubber and data (attached with the post) has been used in Abaqus to get YEOH's coefficient. But I am getting a warning that it is unstable? Can...

04 February 2021 5,975 3 View

How can I set up UV irradiation for crosslinking lab?

Hi, I am using a mix of 2 polymers and want to try and crosslink them. I have a UVA lamp of 365nm and have tried the lab previously at 30cm above. How would you recommend I approach the lab and...

31 January 2021 8,711 3 View

Can you please help with the problem modeling a damper in ABAQUS?

Hello everyone, I am trying to model a damper in ABAQUS. I have obtained hyperelastic properties using a uniaxial tensile test and viscoelastic properties by relaxation test conducted in the...

09 January 2021 4,515 1 View

Is there any relationship/correaltion between 1) elastic modulus and adhesion or 2) elastic modulus and density of solid material or polymers?

21 December 2020 1,853 3 View

Can anyone help me with the constraint between two rods?

Hello Everyone, I am trying to model a wire mesh in abaqus. I have modeled it with 1mm circular cylinder. I want to give a tie constraint to the perpendicular wires. I am unable to find it in...

16 December 2020 3,572 6 View

How to convert Time Domain DMA data to prony series?

Hello Everyone, I have Time Domain DMA data of rubber i.e. loss modulus and storage modulus varying with time with constant 1 hz frequency. I need to convert it into prony coefficient. I need to...

09 December 2020 5,211 3 View

Straight chain or Ring peptide for inhibiting a homo-dimer of a 20 KDa secretory protein?

I am designing a small peptide to inhibit a homo-dimer of a small secretory protein (about 20 KDa). I need suggestions on, which option would be better? a straight-chain peptide or a ring-shaped...

03 December 2020 4,145 5 View

Hi can you tell me how may I calculate the selectivity and relative selectivity coefficients of the Surface plasmon resonance sensor?

This is related to my research

15 November 2020 8,455 3 View

What might be the proxy of "artificial intelligence"?

I am working on research related to financial economics and AI, I need the proxy of AI. Thank you

30 August 2020 9,457 5 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

After a reference from Int J Body Compos Res, can any body help?

Hi, I am after the reference below, my library says it cannot obtain a copy either locally or internationally, any help appreciated! Chris Wang ZM, Heshka S, Wielopolski L, Pi-Sunyer FX, Pierson...

03 March 2021 6,193 1 View

How to find the mean, SD and CI in SPSS?

Hi, I hope that someone can help me with this task: I have 5 groups of participants which are numbered in SPSS from 1 to 5 (according to their group number) and are all under the variable group....

03 March 2021 506 3 View

What techniques can I use to determine the miscibility of polymer blends?

The term miscibility refers to the single-phase state in thermodynamics. I do not mean the compatibility of different components. To determine the miscibility I know several techniques such as...

03 March 2021 4,107 4 View

How to repeat an operation on an atom selection for multiple times in PyMol?

Hi, I am trying to construct a multi-layer fibril structure from a single layer in PyMol by translating the layer along the fibril axis. For now, I am able to use the Translate command in PyMol...

02 March 2021 4,569 4 View

Can you share me how teacher education is managed in your respective national educational system?

I feel that the practice in teacher education in my country is below the expected performance level due to very poor management system. Hope I will learn something from your experiences.

02 March 2021 1,516 4 View

Shall I skip the measurement model in SmartPLS?

Hello everyone, I had run a mediation model in SmartPLS using questionnaires that were already validated among my statistical population. A professor who edited my paper -though she is not...

01 March 2021 3,052 3 View

What is involved in morphological changes of SEM images of a substance?

In the sem analysis of CaCO3 nanaoparticles, the morphology images showed spherical shaped particles but the proposed morphology for these type of nanoparticles is trigonal. I prepared the...

01 March 2021 1,960 4 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

How to define tie constraint between rigid body and another part in dynamic explicit model of Abaqus?

Hi dear researchers I connected a rigid body into the part of my structure by tie constraint and then I added displacement to rigid body, in static general step every thing is fine and these two...

28 February 2021 3,442 2 View