Excessive Kinetic energy in Abaqus VUMAT?

I am comparing solutions of linear elastic response of a material in Abaqus explicit with inbuilt model and with VUMAT (Linear Elastic) code on single element. I am getting almost same results...

08 September 2019 8,119 2 View

How to simulate high number of cycle fatigue analysis in Abaqus?

I am doing fatigue damage analysis of composite in Abaqus. How to simulate high number fatigue say 10K or 20K cycles in abaqus, since it is not feasible to simulate each cycle due to high...

04 May 2018 873 2 View

How to export XY data from abaqus to excel?

06 July 2017 1,055 13 View

What is 'Normalized Stress'?

In research articles term 'normalized stress' or Normalized modulus is frequently used. What is normalized stress or modulus? And what is its significance?

31 December 2016 6,184 0 View

Can anyone provides guidelines for design of launching system of Split hopkinson pressure bar(SHPB)?

looking for design guidelines of striker mechanism or gas gun mechanism of split hopkinsor pressure bar. what are the parts of launching system and what instrumentation is required?

10 November 2016 8,491 0 View

Can anyone refers me some paper or books for finite element analysis of ceramic matrix composites?

some study material for FEM of ceramic matrix composites

09 October 2016 2,718 2 View

How to perform finite element analysis of ceramic matrix composites ?

09 October 2016 3,464 3 View

I am performing finite element analysis of laminated composite plates using ANSYS. values of obtained global stresses are more than applied stress?

04 May 2016 5,162 5 View

How to creat laminated composite pressure vessel in ANSYS apdl?

how to define orientation of layers and what should be thickness of cylinder?is it equal to thickness of layers? what should be boundary conditions when internal pressure is applied?

04 May 2016 5,109 5 View

In ANSYS while defining element type like SOLID95, SHELL181 what is meaning of 95 and 181?

what is the meaning of 95,181,281 in SOLID95, SHELL181 and SHELL281?

04 May 2016 6,671 1 View

Polymer composites suddenly solidifies?

I am making polymer composite by solvent mixing method. When I am trying to add filler solution in polymer solution it quickly get solidified. How to make them then uinform? It doesn't give time...

03 March 2021 7,540 4 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

Waters 2707 HPLC autosampler problem?

I am using a 2707 waters HPLC device. When I try to inject a sample, it says missing plate or rack. I changed the needle and calibrated its position but I still get the same problem. I even get...

02 March 2021 1,408 1 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

Should we change media after1st 6hrs after plating HUVEC bought from INVITROGEN?it's not recomended by invitrogen.Will DMSO present in stock matter?

We have HUVEC bought from Invitrogen. Cat no -C-003-5c. while first plating the cells we have bought the protocol suggests not to centrifuge the cell with media to remove the DMSO. Should we...

02 March 2021 3,713 2 View

How to normalise data on OPM package from R Studio ?

Good afternoon, I recently used OmniLog from BIOLOG for my experimentations : I tested the metabolism of different strains on 2 types of plates. I have 16 strains of 3 different groups...

02 March 2021 3,584 1 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to show arrows over the streamlines in CFD-post?

I follow this to make streamlines like the photos attached below: (software- CFD post-processing) First I plot the 2D streamline over a surface "streamline 1". them I plot a vector by the...

01 March 2021 8,668 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

Can Virtual Servers (remote dekstop manager) run heavy ANSYS Fluent CFD simulation ?

I have a virtual machine. My host Pc specs are not that good thats why i went for virtual servers. so basically my host pc has 8gb of ram with nvidia quadro k2200 4Gb DDR5 GPU ,processor intel...

01 March 2021 8,415 1 View