Daniel_Melo's Postings

In response to requests received from some participants, we have postponed the deadline for submission of the second homework to Tuesday, Aug 3rd, before 8 AM (PDT).

A file with the homework assigned to be submitted Monday, Aug 2nd, is available in the folder "Homework".

A compressed (Zipped) folder is available for downloading the files related to the presentation on Full-Field Optical Measurement Systems.

For those interested in the effects of fiber arrangement on properties of UD composites, we recommend reading the following papers:

We have uploaded new versions of MMFatigue_v1.0 and SMM+v150_P_CDT7. These versions will fix the installation problems.

Question from Armando Mete: “Could you please provide Elastic/Strength properties for AS4/3601-6, IM6/3501-6 used for the Abaqus Umat-MMF Examples?

Question #1: From Fulya Aktas: "Do you do any surface treatment to bind CNTs to resin?"
Answer: "In our research work we have used MWCNTs and have not applied any surface treatment."

We have uploaded records from previous presentations by Prof. Antonio Miravete with better sound quality.

These are the references for 3-D Textile Reinforcement suggested by Prof. Antonio Miravete.

In case you have problems to run MicMac-Hole you probably need to load Excel add-ins. Please do the following:

1. Open Excel.
2. Click the Microsoft Office Button and then click Excel Options.

Executable versions of GenLam and Lamrank are now available in the download utility.

Dear All,

The file with the recording of Kim Parnell's presentation previously available was not complete and we have uploaded a new one. It is available in the Oct 02 folder.

Thanks,

Daniel

There are two versions of 3D-Beam available for download. Version 4.04 works with Excel 2003 and version 5.10 works only in Excel 2007.

Question from Altan Kayran:

Homework Solution set # 3 is now available in Excel 97-2003 format as requested by Aiman Iqbal.

During lecture 5 (April 28, 2009) - Test Methods, by Dr. Ran Kim, a participant asked for further examples of fracture toughened materials.. Dr. Kim sent the following response:

During lecture 5 (April 28, 2009) - Test Methods, by Dr. Ran Kim, a participant asked for fracture data for common composites. Dr. Kim sent the following response:

When you open Mic-Mac, in case it asks for connecting with other files during startup, please deny it and it should work. If you allow it will keep searching for chart.xlm.

While a line is required to logon to Tuesday’s lectures, all participants are welcome to logon to our Software Demo Sessions on Mondays.