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Slope Stability with Pore Water Pressure in a Dam Embankment
A slope stability analysis is performed and the Factor of safety of the dam embankment is calculated by using the Shear Strength Reduction Technique. The pore water pressure is described with Darcy’s law and the Mohr-Coulomb constitutive model is used to describe the soil behavior. At first, a 2D model (plane strain) is investigated followed by a extruded 3D model. The 2D model and the 3D model ...
Modeling Stress Dependent Elasticity
This example shows how to implement a stress dependent material model. The Young's modulus changes based on the stress value.
Peristaltic Pump
In a peristaltic pump, rotating rollers squeeze a flexible tube. As the rollers move along the tube, the fluid in the tube follows the motion. The main advantage of the peristaltic pump is that no seals, valves or other internal parts ever touch the fluid. Due to their cleanliness, peristaltic pumps have found many applications in the pharmaceutical, chemical, biomedical and food industries. ...
Single Edge Crack
This model deals with the stability of a plate with an edge crack that is subjected to a tensile load. To analyze the stability of exciting cracks, fracture mechanics can be utilized. A commonly used parameter in fracture mechanics, used to predict if a specific crack will cause the plate to fracture, is the so-called stress intensity factor KI. When this calculated value becomes equal to ...
Eigenfrequency Analysis of a Free Cylinder
This model calculates the eigenfrequencies and mode shapes of an unconstrained cylinder in axisymmetry. The model is taken from NAFEMS Free Vibration Benchmarks. The eigenfrequencies are compared with the values given in the benchmark report.
Pratt Truss Bridge
This model is inspired by a classic bridge type called a Pratt truss bridge. You can identify a Pratt truss by its diagonal members, which (except for the very end ones) all slant down and in toward the center of the span. All the diagonal members are subject to tension forces only, while the shorter vertical members handle the compressive forces. Since the tension removes the buckling risk, ...
Generation of Random Surfaces
These examples demonstrate how to generate randomized geometric surfaces. The COMSOL Multiphysics® software provides a powerful set of built-in functions and operators, such as functions for uniform and Gaussian random distributions and a very useful sum operator. In the blog post associated with these files, "[How to Generate Random Surfaces in COMSOL Multiphysics](/blogs/how-to-generate ...
Connecting Shells and Beams
Many engineering structures consist of thin and slender components, where a full solid model will result in extremely many small elements. For such structures, it is much more efficient to use shell or beam elements. In this tutorial and verification model, it is shown how to connect beam and shell elements in different situations. The results are also compared to a solid model of the same ...
Connecting Shells and Solids
This tutorial model shows how to model a structure using both shells and solids, and how to create the transition between the two modeling domains. Results are compared between the shell solution and the full 3D solution, and the effects of the transition are highlighted.
Fluid-Structure Interaction in Aluminum Extrusion
In massive forming processes like rolling or extrusion, metal alloys are deformed in a hot solid state with material flowing under ideally plastic conditions. Such processes can be simulated effectively using computational fluid dynamics, where the material is considered as a fluid with a very high viscosity that depends on velocity and temperature. Internal friction of the moving material acts ...