Philip Dai
Installing Salome Meca on Windows 11 using WSL2
References: Installing official Salome Meca on Windows 10/11 using WSL2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMrkfl_QR6Q&t=371s Salome Meca...
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AI Insight about humans
Saw this from Lex clips on Youtube. Very impressive answers from all AI. This is from DS R1, beautifully written. It is even more...
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Poor Richard's Almanack
Poor Richard's Almanack was a yearly almanac published by Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders." It was first...
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surface type clinder
Data lines to define surfaces created with TYPE=CYLINDER: First line (leave blank if this surface is being defined within a part or a...
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UEL for HFW pipes
Uniform Elongation (UEL) For all tensile tests (MPQT & Production tests), in addition to recording / reporting the YS, TS, and YS/TS, the...
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Remote Interview Video Podcast
Based on the following link: (Ref: https://www.vidyard.com/blog/interview-videos/?gdpr-consent=674 ) To record a quality interview,...
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Conversation with Copilot: keep your options open for both STEM and humanities courses at university
Here are some universities known for their strong programs in Maths, Further Maths, Physics, and English Literature: United Kingdom...
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School preferences (Conversation with Copilot)
There could be several reasons why you prefers a school that you perceive as worse compared to a better one. Here are a few...
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Copilot: A-Level Combinations
Combining Maths, Further Maths, and Physics is a strong foundation for many STEM fields. Here are a few complementary subjects you might...
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Catenary calculations
Let a catenary be embedded in a cartesian plane so that the 𝑦-axis passes through the lowest point of the catenary. (The word catenary...
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Nominal bending strain for pipe
Orcaflex: (half the pipe diameter) / (radius of curvature) Abaqus thin pipe: (pipeline MR) / Radius_of_curvature pipeline MR = (half the...
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thin and thick pipe hoop stress due to pressure
In Abaqus, the effective axial section force for beams subjected to pressure loading is defined as: thin pipe theory: Hoop stress S22 =...
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Connector Elasticity to define rotational stiffness
** *Node 1, 0., 19121.25, 0. *Element, type=CONN3D2 1, 1, Beam_CS-1.1 *Connector Section, elset=Wire-1-Set-1,...
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Straightening Process for Reel Lay System and RCM
The straight settings produce a pipe whose OOS is less than 0.15%L typically, ±9mm when L is taken as 6m (i.e., radius of curvature:...
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Nonlinear isotropic/kinematic hardening model
In the most analyses, the plasticity model we used for offshore pipelines, only have the following lines: *material, name=mat *Density...
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PIPE31(H) for offshore pipelines
The pipeline is normally modeled using PIPE31(H) elements. The shear flexible (Timoshenko) pipe elements are good for finite axial...
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Out-Of-Straightness (OOS) for under-straight pipe
Target radius of curvature: R [m] Target curvature: 1/R [1/m] Nominal strain: (OR-t/2)/R (ABAQUS) or OR/R (Orcaflex) Pipe length to...
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Ovality of pipeline
The out-of-roundness (OOR) for pipe ends is determined as the difference between the largest outside diameter and the smallest outside...
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An Abaqus Error with Altair Compute Manager
When submitting jobs with Altair Compute Manager, one mistake I have often made is using a running folder name with space, for instance,...
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