Since this seems like a non-technical thread, I'll post here.
I always hear from the all-knowing engineering greybeards employed by very technical companies that engineering used to be much more hands on, bustling on the shop floor kind of work (perhaps implying that the new norm of cubicle...
Regarding the Pressure Stress Intensity Factor I in the WRC 107/537 analysis, for the increase in stress due only to pressure at the shell/nozzle intersection discontinuity:
I think I understand the general premise of this additional factor, to compensate for the discontinuity stress in an...
Just some observation from some analyses that I have run and I am wondering if anyone else has run across something similar.
For element birth/death in Abaqus I use the model change keyword in the interaction module. For some reason, I cannot use the element deactivation command in the first...
I know this is a complete shot in the dark, but would anyone be willing to share any information on MA Prohl's work (Westinghouse?)? He wrote some papers back in 1958 on calculating packeted blade group natural frequencies using energy methods. I have been looking endlessly for these in digital...
