How can I apply a damping ratio of concrete in ABAQUS?

In my building vibration response analysis, I need to apply damping ratio of concrete = 2% which equals to 0.02 in material damping section. However, im lack of understanding regarding on which...

04 May 2015 7,007 3 View

Are there any related journals of researches that similar to this case study?

Is there any related studies or journals about the masonry building vibration assessment based on VC-curve (Gordon), which is due to ground borne vibrations from construction activities? Thank...

04 May 2015 6,246 3 View

Which is better to be used for long duration of structural vibration response, implicit or explicit (ABAQUS)?

04 May 2015 4,349 5 View

How can I solve these issues (Frequency Extraction & applying load problem ) - ABAQUS?

Dear friends, Currently im having two issues and uncertainties regarding on Abaqus analysis process: i. Does Abaqus CAE has the capability to perform linear perturbation of Frequency and Modal...

03 April 2015 6,114 4 View

How to perform FE Dynamic Analysis of Collapse/fracture ( building structure) in ABAQUS?

03 April 2015 5,490 2 View

Is there any way to create a node in Abaqus?

03 April 2015 6,199 5 View

Can anyone advise me to solve this issue of time history result (ABAQUS)?

03 April 2015 4,973 4 View

How can I input acceleration load into model and its boundary condition in ABAQUS?

03 April 2015 6,062 6 View

Is ABAQUS able to develop time history results?

03 April 2015 7,048 8 View

How to perform Vibration analysis of multi story masonry building with TimevsAcceleration (ABAQUS)?

Help needed , currently i'm trying to perform dynamic analysis/performance of multi story masonry building using ABAQUS program. i have obtained the vibrational data in "Time vs Acceleration" and...

03 April 2015 4,072 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

What is the characteristic length to determine the Reynolds number for the scattered turbulent fluid flow?

Dear all, I just saw this example in FB on the difference between laminar flow and turbulent flow. The flow from a pipe hits the sink and scattered. The flow from the pipe is characterized as...

02 March 2021 1,999 5 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 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

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

Is there a deep reason for using the squared modulus of the wave function as the probability density of the existence of the particle?

I think we were all surprised at the first time we got to know quantum mechanics that the squared modulus of the wave function is the probability density of the existence of the particle? The role...

28 February 2021 6,282 9 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

How do you mesh a thin solid in Fluent?

Hello, I have used the shell function on SpaceClaim to create thin solids for the model I am studying. These are contained within an enclosure for my study. I chose this approach as it avoids the...

24 February 2021 8,856 3 View

No streamlines present in a small region inside a flow. This means exactly what?

No streamlines present means whether the flow is getting obstructed there and the velocity inside the region is zero? Or else, the fluid is trapped inside that region with a nonzero velocity?...

22 February 2021 5,249 10 View

What are effects of steel jacketing on flexural strength?

Dear all, If steel jacketing is used to retrofit a reinforced-concrete (RC) column, can we use it to improve flexural strength? I understand that we leave gaps between the ends of the jacket and...

22 February 2021 1,906 5 View