Dear Josè, On 09/18/2013 07:10 PM, Josè Luis Mietta wrote: > Dear Robert. > > Im intresting in modeling mechanical deformation of magnetorheological > elastomers (material formed by inorganic chains inserting in a polymeric > matrix -see figure 2 in the attached file-). The inorganic chais are like > pearl necklace (are formed by saligned pheres ). > > Can I use this tool (SfePy) for modeling the mechanical deformation (i.e.: > shape deformation by appling a force in longitudinal and transversal > direction respect to the inorganic chains)?
I guess so :) You are interested in modeling a single chain, not the whole microstructure, right? (BTW. if you are interested in modeling the whole "box" with many chains, check [1]). > How can I do that? These are general steps, not particular to sfepy: First you need to create a FE mesh out of the CT data. There are probably many packages that can do that. I am familiar (and know it works) with [2], which has been created by Vladimir Lukes, another sfepy developer. Then you need to define the problem - specify boundary conditions, choose FE approximation, apply loads and finally solve and visualize. > Im a newby user of python and I dont know anything about simple finite > elements analysis. What documentation (books or other) do yo recommend for > my introduction in this topic? Check the wiki page [3] and possibly the references given there. If you have other questions, we can discuss off-list, or on the sfepy mailing list [4]. Best regards, r. [1] http://parfe.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://sfepy.org/dicom2fem/ [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_element_method [4] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sfepy-devel _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
