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    How to define bilinear elastic-plastic material in Abaqus?

    I'm having problem to define the bilinear elastic-plastic material. I have the following information. density = 7800 kg/m^3 Young Modulus = 193 GPa Yield strength = 207 MPa Poisson's ratio = 0.27 Tangent Modulus = 692 MPa Shear Modulus = 75 MPa I already ran the first simulation, but the...
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    What is the typical bending stiffness and torsional stiffness of a chassis of hatchback car?

    I know there are lots of factors come into play when determine the bending stiffness. I am more concerned about the material and the design. I'm using high carbon steel as the material. The density is 7490kg/m^3, Young Modulus=198000 MPa, and Poission's ratio=0.29. I modeled the frames of...
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    How to apply pressure of 0 to 0.409 MPa at constant for a time from t=0 to t=1.6ms?

    @DanStro, Do you mind explain a little bit more? By amplitude, I assume this is the fatigue analysis.
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    How to apply pressure of 0 to 0.409 MPa at constant for a time from t=0 to t=1.6ms?

    I don't really get this. I have a balloon and stent, and I need to apply an internal pressure on the inner surface of balloon. The balloon will expand, then the stent will expand as well. However, when I review work done by other, I came up with this statement. "As illustrated in Fig. 2...
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    Does the blood flow (fluid mechanics point of view) has any effect on the failure of stent?

    Thanks for your reply. But how am I going to convince my supervisor that the flow does not influence the mechanical failure of stent? He keeps on asking me to find something relating each other. DAMN!!!! I cannot find a damn article that can relate it. He asking me to find something like...
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    Does the blood flow (fluid mechanics point of view) has any effect on the failure of stent?

    So far I have search, the reason for failure of stent does not come from blood flow in artery. The most common reason is the fatigue failure, due to the cyclic loadings of the of the pulsatile blood pressure (solid mechanics point of view). I want to know if the from the fluid mechanics point...
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    How to apply uniform pressure on inner wall of a cylinder?

    You can see a list of pressure to choose from. However, there is no the pressure that I want!!!!http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=bbbd0838-bc37-40d1-a682-5eaf84b924b7&file=!.jpg
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    How to apply radial load in cylindrical object?

    @Drej Trust me, I would not have to take all the trouble and post a new thread if I know the solution. And no, Ansys Mechanical does not assume that the pressure is distributed uniformly throughout the circular wall of cylinder. ANsys Mechanical will assume that it is a point load. Not a...
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    How to apply uniform pressure on inner wall of a cylinder?

    And of course the pressure where I want to it to act on the inner wall of cylinder. http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/attachments/structural-mechanics/26406-ansys-mechanical-14-0-axi-symmetric-condition-ansys-mechanical-main5x.png
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    How to apply uniform pressure on inner wall of a cylinder?

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    How to apply uniform pressure on inner wall of a cylinder?

    I have a hollow cylindrical object. I want to apply a pressure acting on the inner cylinder wall, which is circle in geometry of course. Then I would like to view the expansion of the cylinder object, due to the pressure acting on it. Please refer to the link, under the post of flash3780. The...
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    How to apply radial load in cylindrical object?

    Aarrggh... It is not radial load. Mistake. What I mean is the load acting on the inner surface on the cylindrical object (balloon catheter). Each point on the inner surface of the balloon should have the same load acting on it.
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    How to apply radial load in cylindrical object?

    Please refer to the link under attachment, that's my model (using Solidworks). This is regarding my final year project. Load analysis on stent. I want to apply a radial load onto the inner surface of the balloon, so that the balloon will expand, which in turn will expand my stent. I'm using...
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    Coronary stent: How to model it in Femap Nastran?

    Can I model it using line element, beam element, or plate element? So this is my final year project. I have to do analysis on the load distribution of the coronary stent. I need to make sure which element will give the most accurate result. If I import the CAD model from Solidworks, which...
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    ANSYS Fluent 14.0, dimension problem?

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/52175884@N08/9039215626/ Why I cannot display the value of dimension in my sketching? You can clearly see that my vertical dimension is 16.25 in, and my horizontal dimension is 7.07 in, but the values in the sketching is weird? And the triad is supposed to be X, Y...

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