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Hope you are all keeping well.
I am searching for polymers that can be used for contact lens carrier during manufacturing process to replace stainless steel that is currently used. The ideal material has to meet the following requirements:
* Good UV resistance
* Withstand 80 degree...
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First of all, let me explain the problem briefly. I was set to model a spherical cell contained by a block of gel. I was trying to calculate the circumferential strain across the cell surface. The output results from the simulation provide many sorts of strain, eg. Principal strains...
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I'm trying to apply a strain in X-dirction (1,0,0) on the top surface of a block of gel that is equivalent to a given amount of Octahedral shear strain. Could someone give me some suggestions on the conversion, please?
Many thanks.
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I'm trying to calculate the fluid velocity of a multi-layered gel under compression. When defining the material properties, there is a list of options to choose from under Pore Fluid. I've dealt with permeability with another project before. But in this application, the permeability is...
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I am trying to simulate micro-indentation tests on given materials. I asked to compare a list of strains across different materials, namely, "Hydrostatic strain", "Deviatoric strain", "equivalent strain" and "effective strain". I am a bit confused about these strains and don't know...
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I am trying to model the viscoelastic behaviour of a tested material. In Abaqus, I used Prony under time domain to assign viscoelastic properties. When I tested it with two different loading rates, I didn't see much change from force-deflection curve. My question is if this is due to...
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I am trying to use connectors to link the end nodes of two beams in Abaqus. Is there any way to assign the dimensions of the connectors, eg, diameters? Thanks.
Feng
Thanks for your reply. When I re-checked my model yesterday, I found that it wasn't the contact that was causing the error but something else, most likely to be one of the "Tie" functions I used in the model. Does it make more sense? Any further hints based on that?
Thanks,
Feng
Hi guys,
I am trying to model a block containing a sphere under disp. load on the block. I've set up contact between the sphere and the surrounding surface from the block. I got the following error msg. Can anybody give me some advise?
***ERROR: THE NORMAL TO ELEMENT 1 INSTANCE...
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I am trying to use agarose gel to simulate the 3D loading environment of cultured cells. Could anyone give me some hints on its material properties and how to assign these properties to my model?
Thanks in advance,
Feng
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I'm trying to assign viscoelastic material properties to a part of my model. By searching from the literatures, I've collected some parameters that were achieved from creep tests on the material. These parameters are: effective viscosity, relaxation time and shear constant. Could...
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I am trying to create a tensegrity structure with pre-stress/pre-tension on the cables. I am wondering whether there is an element type in Abaqus such that I could assign pre-stress/pre-tension on (like the SPAR element in ANSYS). Many thanks.
Feng
