Dr. Krishnan teaches several Abaqus-based and Tosca-based courses including Intro to Abaqus, Contact, Abaqus/Explicit, Composites, and Fracture-Failure with Abaqus. He is the in-house expert for composites and fracture techniques in finite elements. To se

Use proper modeling techniques to capture crack -tip singularities in fracture mechanics problems Use Abaqus/CAE to create meshes appropriate for fracture studies Calculate stress intensity factors and contour integrals around a crack tip Simulate materia

Seems more simple than what I was trying to do anyway .... this piece of work is in part of learning how to use ABAQUS and Python scripting. Once I get more to grips with it all then I can start also looking at a more complex design piece but for now the