Abaqus - plate is going up under gravity+blast loads?

Hi, I have modeled concrete plate with reinforcement supported on 2 concrete block. between concrete block and the plate I have added regular contact. I have created 2 steps: 1) only gravity load...

30 January 2021 2,772 1 View

Spread cheese micrograph SEM Analysis. What is this white dot marked with an red arrow?

In this micrograph you can see processed cheese spread with buttermilk powder taken by SEM. I suppose it can be the result of interactions between proteins and the buttermilk powder used as...

13 January 2021 7,429 7 View

What are good publications for Europaean Thaumaleidae identification and distribution?

Dear All I have some Thaumaleidae larvae from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Using key of Disney (1999) I identified them as Thaumalea testacea and Thaumalea verralli. Disney lists in his key only T....

03 May 2020 5,113 3 View

Why Geant4 creates .wrl file instead of .gdd file when it is in gMocren mode?

Hi, I am a beginning user of Geant4. I am trying to work with voxel phantoms. Therefore, I have some difficulties: - following the title of my question - my Geant4 environment is creating .wrl...

10 March 2020 1,951 2 View

Why 915 MHz magnetrons have higher efficiency than 2.45 GHz magnetrons?

I am working with a microwave plasma system for gas cleaning. During my research I found information that 915 MHz systems have higher efficiency (ca. 85%) than the 2.45 GHz (ca. 65%). What is the...

24 October 2018 8,766 27 View

How the process of UV-initiated polymerization of MMA looks like?

I have read that it's possible to initate polymerization of MMA by exposing it to UV light. Unfortunetlly i haven't find any protocols or sugesstions how to perform this kind of polymeryzation....

10 November 2017 6,474 4 View

Which particle shaped filler may cause significant increase of the hardness of polyurea resin for coating applications?

19 July 2016 7,356 3 View

Can I stain my cells with annexin V prior to the surface staining ?

Hi all! I'm wondering if it is possible to stain my cells with annexin V before performing the surface staining. My surface staining might take up to 4 hours and I'm afraid that my cells might...

01 June 2016 4,862 3 View

Remote calculations using ESA data products - which tools should I use?

23 May 2016 543 2 View

Disaggregation using linear dependence of radar backscatter change on soil moisture change - do you have any software recommendations?

I'm going to apply disaggregation algorithm described in the linked article. I'm going to use Sentinel-1 data as the high resolution data source. I thought about implementing mentioned algorithm...

20 May 2016 2,292 2 View

How to define and get results (stresses) for certain points of a model in abaqus, using python? When the size of the model changes?

I want to do a parameter study of a aixsymmetric cylinder in Abaqus. I want to create several jobs where I get the stresses for 3 different points in my model. These points are defined. I wrote a...

01 March 2021 10,078 1 View

What is the procedure to determine the permeability of concrete?

can anyone help me in this, it will help me with my research work

01 March 2021 834 3 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

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

How to assign different material properties to each element in Abaqus ?

Hello, I am writing a python script to generate my model and write the input file. The problem is I have 1000 elements in my mesh and I want to assign different material properties to each...

01 March 2021 9,511 3 View

Apart from Nanosilica and CNT's what are the other nanomaterials readily available to use in concrete mixture?

Nanotechnology in concrete materials

01 March 2021 3,379 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

How can i resolve the "final solutuin is not converged" error in Comsol for my heat transfer simulation??

I have been trying to simulate heat transfer problem in Comsol 5.5 for long time but it always throw an error stating: "Failed to find a solution. Maximum number of Newton iterations...

28 February 2021 8,626 3 View

How to modify Johnson cook equation in ABAQUS?

I wanted to add an extra parameter to the existing Johnson cook equation in the ABAQUS simulation. How to add those extra parameters. Ref: A modified Johnson-Cook material model with strain...

28 February 2021 4,841 3 View

For modelling epoxy-based matrices (in composites), which model in ABAQUS is the most suitable, Concrete damaged plasticity or Drucker-Prager model?

I am working on developing a micromechanical FE model for predicting kink-band formation in UD composites. To model matrix plasticity, which model, out of Concrete Damaged Plasticity and...

28 February 2021 5,415 1 View