How to apply shape memory effect of SMA in LS-DYNA? If you can provide me any model with SMA in LS-DYNA, it will be very helpful.

09 October 2015 8,311 1 View

In which specific criteria one should provide pile-wall retaining structures ?

There are lots of different type of retain structure available to retain soil. Pile-wall retaining wall is one of them. But it's expensive relative to other type of soil retaining system. So, in...

11 December 2014 8,142 5 View

How can you distinguish between the advantages of different type of retaining walls ?

There are different type of retaining wall available for construction. It is very important to identify a specific type of retaining wall that is useful for a situation. What the conditions that...

11 December 2014 9,807 4 View

How do you deal with AIS data to evaluate vessel collusion at sea?

09 October 2014 4,538 1 View

How to model a rubber bearing in seismostruct ?

Read 1 answer by scientists to the question asked by Hafizul Alim on Sep 4, 2014

08 September 2014 5,825 1 View

How can I create a scale model for a soil foundation retaining wall experiment?

I need to evaluate load and displacement relationship of a retaining structure due to vertical load from adjacent footing. I need to know details about the modelling techniques and how get the...

08 September 2014 8,034 7 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 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

Concrete compressive strength databases?

I am looking for datasets similar to this one: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Concrete+Compressive+Strength I am looking for concretes with different types of aggregates (Recycled,...

27 February 2021 6,801 3 View