How the cytotoxicity can be measured for metallic materials? Is it mandatory for a Material Engg./Mech Eng. to have a medical Practitioner with them?

I do not know the much about cyto-toxicity test for metallic or polymer material? Is the test type different for different material? Also if you are a Material Engineer or Mechanical Engineer,...

01 February 2018 1,427 3 View

What is the best method to learn FEM, if we want to incorporate it into our research.

I want to make models of my material for analysis purpose, so please suggest me.

04 May 2017 274 1 View

What is the difference between clock time and CPU time during the Genetic Algorithm Computation?

04 May 2016 2,394 0 View

What is the mechanism that exists behind the working of functional graded materials?

The deformation response of material depends upon the elastic modulus of its constituents, so with increase in grading parameter,the ceramic volume increases and because as elastic modulus of...

10 November 2015 5,948 14 View

What is the Best method to solve optimization problems?

Now a day, a lot of optimization methods are available, like Taguchi (Grey relational, utility concept, Entropy Method), RSM (Desirability), GA (NSGA-II), ANN, PSO, Ant colony optimization...

10 November 2015 9,895 4 View

How can tissue growth on a material be tested by in vitro test?

If there are a number of material and we want to compare the tissue growth on different material by in vitro test? Please also give a link if there is any literature on this.

04 May 2015 9,644 3 View

How we can analyse the XRD pattern?

Can anybody help me to study XRD pattern? I had two graph, but unable to explain.

11 December 2014 6,190 5 View

What is the minimum size of tensile test specimen according to ASTM?

I want to fabricate one dye for powder compaction and samples for tensile test. What is the minimum size of tensile test specimen so that a smaller dye can be made according to specimen?

03 April 2014 9,718 23 View

How can we combine Taguchi Technique with GA?

I want to design the experiments from Taguchi design. Where can I get a model which can be processed from GA?

03 April 2014 7,377 8 View

How can I measure the shape memory effect of an alloy?

Methods of Measurement of SME of an alloy

02 March 2014 2,516 4 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

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

How to use measure capacitance change in COMSOL time dependent study ?

I want to measure change of capacitance due to relative displacement between two parallel plates in COMSOL. Distance between two plates changes with time. So I'm using a time dependent study but...

26 February 2021 8,567 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

The most suitable method to calculate the stress intensity factor in the presence of contact between the crack lips?

I'm trying to study cracked structures under a compressive load taking into account contact between the crack lips. I would like to know if the method of extrapolation by displacement remains...

21 February 2021 8,694 4 View

Can anyone help with an Accurate Diffuser Expansion Loss formula for rectangular shaped diffusers in turbulent flow regime?

I have tried Idelchik's Handbook of Hydraulic Resistance 4th Edition (2007 page 300) formulas and across some range the formulas are reported valid for, the law of conservation of energy is...

20 February 2021 2,504 1 View

How to visualize stress in a coating defined by "Skin" in Abaqus?

Hello All! I'm trying to model a contact between a coated substrate and a tip in Abaqus. The coating is ultra-thin compared to the geometry of the substrate. So I defined the coating using the...

16 February 2021 1,594 3 View

How can I find the thermophysical properties of high temperature microencapsulated phase change materials (MPCM)?

Hi everyone. I am looking for a high temperature MPCM. More specifically, I need the thermo physical properties of a microencapsulated phase change material with the melting temperature between...

14 February 2021 3,606 2 View