Cyclic loading in ANSYS ?

How can the Cyclic and repeated loading be represented in the nonlinear finite element program(ANSYS software)?

31 December 2018 7,593 8 View

Calculation of the splitting strength(ft)?

The well-known concrete splitting test can be determined as: ft=2P/(3.14*D*L); I wonder if you have the full derivation of such equation!

11 December 2018 4,176 0 View

Vibration in steel bridge?

Sometimes, the designer of vehicle or foot steel bridges ignore some design limitations. this may result in some unwanted vibration in structure although safety is satisfied.what is the possible...

11 December 2018 8,339 0 View

Literature about dapped end beams?

I am in need to papers that considered the behavior of the RC dapped end beams with openings to support my experimental study in this area. thanks

11 December 2018 447 3 View

Steel bars of square section !!!

All the steel reinforcing bars using in construction are of circular section, why there is not bars of square sections?

01 January 1970 354 3 View

Working in Groups!!!!

Do you think that working in groups to carry out researches may improve the level of article to be published???what are the advantages and disadvantages due to work with a group??

01 January 1970 6,412 6 View

Your opinion about Islam!!!!!

In your opinion ... Do you think that Islam supports and encourages the development and creativity or it is a religion of backwardness and ignorance ??why??

01 January 1970 588 41 View

Construction materials after ten centuries

Do you think that the most used building materials nowadays (steel, concrete and clay) will be considered very old materials after 1000 years?. Nowadays, we consider houses of reeds, stone, logs...

01 January 1970 6,689 4 View

Construction of steel buildings!!!!!!!!!

Do you think it is time to switch to the steel buildings rather than concrete in Iraq because of the increasing seismic activity ??

01 January 1970 10,035 5 View

Structural Engineer as a doctor!!!

In rehabilitation and strengthening structures, there is a philosophy that considers the structural engineer as a doctor and the deteriorated structure as a patient (as infant) that can not...

01 January 1970 9,885 3 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel, etched for revealing retained austenite, any help for clarifying?

Hello everyone. Given microstructure image belongs to a 12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel (annealed and tempered). The sample was etched with picral (100 mL ethanol and 4 g picric acid). I...

02 March 2021 4,119 3 View

Which is a lucid standard comprehensive book to guide on psychological scale construction and its standardization?

02 March 2021 7,082 3 View

How Can I bring as much common elements in steel as possible to calculate stable phase(s) in OpenCalphad?

As I was tweaking step-by-step OpenCalphad6 Macros step1.ocm involving phase and thermal property calculation of a High-speed steel, I could not incorporate more than 6 elements in the steel...

01 March 2021 8,840 1 View

How can you bring two structures together to create an adhesive bond in LAMMPS?

I have created an Ice 1h crystalline structure and an Aluminium substrate structure and equilibrated both at 250K. Now I need to bring them together in a way that an adhesive bond is created....

01 March 2021 3,325 2 View

What is the density for pva electrospining?

I'm Juan Carlos, a high school student who is working with electropinning, I made an electropinning machine with a 21g needle and a 30kv high voltage source and the distance between my needle is...

28 February 2021 298 3 View

Is anyone familiar with the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) ?

I would like to get more information on the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) which is typically done for bituminous material in pavement design. Any one can advise on the...

28 February 2021 2,004 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