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  1. Analyses of Composite Structures

    Entry #430
    Naveen Rastogi
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    Application of composite materials are now wide spread and all around us - Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Tennis rackets, Golf clubs, Hockey sticks, Medical supplies, Prosthetics, Oil and Natural gas pipelines, Oil Rigs, pedestrian and vehicle bridges, Building materials, Architectural Marvels,...

  2. Who is Jose Gomez Sanchez

    Entry #429
    Jose Gomez-Sanchez
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    30 years ago I started a Journey as a Mechanical Engineer, and this journey has been filled with countless blessings and great opportunities. I feel very blessed and grateful for all the great things and many countries I have been able to 

  3. Composite of a life: R. Byron Pipes

    Entry #428
    Wenbin Yu
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    This article was originally published on Medium.com, Purdue College of Engineering. We repost this interview here with Dr. Pipes' permission.  R. Byron Pipes, NAE, is the John Bray Distinguished Professor of Engineering and executive director of the Composites Manufacturing &...

  4. 2024 AIAA ICME PRIZE

    Entry #426
    Ali Najafi
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    AIAA ICME Prize   The AIAA ICME Working Group with the support of Composite Design and Manufacturing HUB (cdmHUB), NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), and Rolls Royce Corporation funding have established an ICME (Integrated Computational Materials Engineering) prize for...

  6. Micro and meso scale homogenisation

    Entry #421
    Sojan Andrews Zachariah
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    Hi,  In the texgen 4SC online launch window, there are three options . micro homogenisation, ,mesohomogenisation and failure analysis. After exporting a swiftcomp file from texgen model, only microscale homogenosation option gives a result, rest both seems to be not active. Please advise...

  10. Add a Sense of Reality to Your Simulation

    Entry #412
    Wenbin Yu
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    I have seen many simulation results which do not make sense to a normal engineer. It is usually not because the theories or corresponding simulation codes are wrong, but because the inputs are not real, or not in consistent units. For example, I have seen students obtain a strain of...

  12. Your Advices for a Better Way of Publishing

    Entry #296
    Wenbin Yu
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    Inspired by the discussion on another website, I am thinking about a new journal with the following attributes: 1. Has its own arXiv service so that submitted papers become instantly public. I can see three benefits of doing this: 1) instant copyright protection. The authors do not have to worry...

  13. SwiftComp available on Apple App Store

    Entry #211
    Banghua Zhao
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    SwiftComp iOS App is available on Apple App Store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swiftcomp/id1297825946?ls=1&mt=8. If you have an iPhone, you can find it in App Store by searching SwiftComp. The functionalities for current version are following: 1. For laminate, users can obtain effective...

  17. Structures, Models, & Assumptions

    Entry #154
    Wenbin Yu
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    Terms like Euler-Bernoulli beam or Timoshenko beam are often used in the literature or technical communications. I personally think these terms are confusing because they use a model along with its associated assumptions to name a structure. Actually a beam structure is a solid with its axis...

  19. RVE Analysis vs Mechanics of Structure Genome

    Entry #140
    Wenbin Yu
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    RVE analysis is a popular method for micromechanical modeling of heterogeneous materials. It can be used to perform a homogenization analysis to obtain effective properties and it can also be used to perform a dehomogenization analysis to obtain the local fields and failure of the material. Its...

  20. On Dimensionality of Models

    Entry #112
    Wenbin Yu
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    In the field of composites, a model consists of a system of equations governing some physical fields such as the displacement/stress/strain fields, which are functions of fundamental variables (usually coordinates). Hence there are three types of dimensionality that we are dealing with:...