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  1. Jordonlaw

    Driverless Cars Latest Fiasco

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c70e2g09ng9o Great advert for Waymo (who they ?) who seemingly can't control their cars remotely. I wonder if the guy ever got out ? CHE
  2. Jordonlaw

    Korean airplane crash

    Bird management is a well-practiced operation but birds still appear when not expected - the Hudson airbus was an example. I used to work with a team who 'designed' bird management for airports around the world and the main guy said that basic things (like having a nice large pond in front of...
  3. Jordonlaw

    Germany seeks arrest of Ukranian Diver for Nord Stream bombing

    Good to see irrelevant posts being submitted by the usual suspects. Please keep to the topic ! I've reported them to the Mods this time.
  4. Jordonlaw

    German 'Hotel' Collapse

    Can you guys keep to the topic please ! I'm not interested in reading about traffic jams you get in to, this part of the forum is about other stuff. Perhaps the moderators can remind people of that ? CHE
  5. Jordonlaw

    Building Collapse in South Africa

    Surprised this one hadn't made it to these pages as yet :- https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/07/africa/five-dead-and-49-missing-as-multi-story-building-collapses-in-south-africa/index.html CHE
  6. Jordonlaw

    Fire destroys one of the two largest wood structures in the world...

    JohnRBaker (Mechanical)(OP)10 Nov 23 17:21 Actually, I suspect that it was the other hanger, Hanger #2, which is still standing, was where the aeromodellers were allowed to perform. Your suspicions are incorrect. CHE
  7. Jordonlaw

    Fire destroys one of the two largest wood structures in the world...

    This was a historical hanger for aeromodellers like me with many world records set, some in very recent years,inside it's volume. There are few available hangers for high ceiling flying and this one was highly prized due to it's benign conditions. CHE
  8. Jordonlaw

    Question about contact results..

    If you just want to plot the contacted elements then you can use the Select Elements menu and then plot the selected items. You might want to create and run a small procedure fil eif you need to do it a plot - there isn't a direct way as far as I know. CHE
  9. Jordonlaw

    Question about contact results..

    You could plot the contact status then go into the Select Elements menu to just display the contacted elements. You can then use Length Area & Volume Calculations to work out the contacting area. There may be better ways of course. CHE
  10. Jordonlaw

    axial shortening data in defining the tabular data

    If you know the length over which the axial shortning occurred then you'll have stress v's strain that you can use in a tabular form. I'd suggest you post this question in the general FEA section as it isn't specific to MARC, but materials testing.
  11. Jordonlaw

    Status of MSC / Patran

    One satisfied customer here :- http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS130302+17-Aug-2009+GNW20090817 Check out videos of the blade in action, very impressive. Mind you, when I was demo'd SimExpert it wasn't well enough developed for my application.
  12. Jordonlaw

    Is it possible to get .DAT file from .T16 file

    I don't think so. For example, the .t16 doesn't include material data. I assume you have deleted your .mud/.dat file by mistake ?
  13. Jordonlaw

    Definition of Anisotropic Material

    I am modelling a circular structure subject to tension and bending loads. I need to use equivalent material properties due to it's complex internal structure and the surrounding components that are also being modelled. I have some test data for axial, torsion and bending stiffness but certainly...
  14. Jordonlaw

    Kill Loadcase subroutine?

    Please explain; do you want to terminate a loadcase yet keep the job running ie skip to another loadcase ? If so, I don't see how you can do this and why you'd want to do it.
  15. Jordonlaw

    What doesn't ABAQUS do well

    johnhors, Can't be too specific I'm afraid but my benchmark problem involved contact of hundreds of parts which itself causes most FEA solvers to fail. For example, we have had many individuals claim that you can do it Ansys (implicit) but the latest one, a UK help desk veteran, couldn't get it...
  16. Jordonlaw

    Laptop Reviews !!

    I run MSC Marc and Ansys/Dyna FEA on a Dell M70. You can get these for £200 on eBay !
  17. Jordonlaw

    What doesn't ABAQUS do well

    You need to benchmark your choice of solvers against an application that your will be analysing. I have been told so many times that FEA Package A will do, say, non-linear contact with friction, but when you give them a realistic job it will just fall down. My last benchmark activity included...
  18. Jordonlaw

    small but precise mill

    BCA jig borer; see here :- http://www.lathes.co.uk/bca/index.html Got one in my workshop and it's brilliant. One came up for sale recently.
  19. Jordonlaw

    SimOffice

    giveithere, I wanted to create a geometry, meshing and solver for a specific product type. It could have done it but not at the standard I saw it. Cost was also a factor.
  20. Jordonlaw

    SimOffice

    I have reviewed SymExpert recently and had a demo. It is a scripting package that adds on to, say, Nastran that allows the user to produce dedicated input, solve, and output interfaces. The aim is to sidestep Patran and input model variables via a GUI. MSC have sold suit systems to companies to...

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