Weekly Report Sept. 19 th -Sept. 23 rd Federico Viscarra Sept. 23 rd, 2011 Davila research group
Diatoms Amorphous silica shell Micro body nano pores Fragilariopsis Kerguelensis Hamm et. al. 2
Goals for the Week Run tests on COMSOL v4.2 Display results in more organized fashion 3
Results Ran test on all models Created graphs of: – Von Mises Stress (VMS) vs. Diameter – VMS vs. # of pores – Displacement vs. Diameter – Displacement vs. # of pores 4
Simulations Model# of runsVon Mises Stress (Pa) Base E9 Centric 2D E9 Centric 3D E9 Centric 4D E9 Horizontal 2D E9 Horizontal 3D E9 Horizontal 4D E10 Vertical 3 pores 2D54.918E9 Vertical 3 pores 3D54.999E9 Vertical 3 pores 4D E10 Vertical 5 pores 2D E9 Vertical 5 pores 3D E10 Vertical 5 pores 4D57.756E9 5
VMS vs. Diameter 6
VMS vs. # of pores 7
Displacement vs. Diameter 8
Displacement vs. # of pores 9
Thank you Any questions or comments? 10