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March 4th, 2007 #1
Jazz' Junk Draw' (Practice Enviro update, Aug 6, 2011)
Hi!! I FINALLY mustered the courage to make a sketchbook on here!! I'm Jasmine, but please do call me Jazz if ya like! It's so much easier! ^_^ I wrote in another thread of mine that I havent the time or energy (or inspiration) to draw very nice things. Well, nothing much has changed, except I HAVE been trying to draw more!
I really wish to improve, especially since I have some personal projects that I'm continuing with. See, I have stories and comics that I wish to create. I just can't seem to draw characters very well. I've lost the heart to do so. I used to REALLY suck at anatomy, but at one point I was into expressions and movement more than I am now. I was also into drawing full-bodied figures more often. Now, I'm surprised I can even draw a full head! I can't!
So, I'll show everyone where I've been and where I am! This first post just has a few sketches, some not so recent. I lost my will to draw for a while there. I did draw from reference though, a few times. One figure-drawing term helped out a lot.
I got into trying the self-portraits, though I have trouble making out detail. I still wanted to practice finding any detail that I could see. These two are from 2004 and 2005.
It's too bad I was too tired to shade that latest self-portrait. It was for a CA 101 assignment. But I could've done more to make myself look nifty. (well, my hair makes me look crazy, at least.)
I was bored at home, so I drew my foot and some wooden model poses.
Just some figure drawings. The second page of them is actually from a book. I wish I could take that class again.
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more sketches
Here are more sketches. They don't have much to them, and so another thing I want to do overtime is really put more effort into making scenes and posing characters better.
I love to draw cartoony stuff, but I'd also love to get some realistic stuff down. Still, the cartoons themselves need work.
Forgot to show more sketches! My slippers...that's another thing I wish I shaded. Heh. I like the portraits more than I liked them before. Mind you, I have trouble with putting the face on right! Oh yes, I got the portrait refs from google.
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March 4th, 2007 #3
Lastly...for now...
I'll have to show some fanart, but overtime I would play a bit with colour in Photoshop 6 (that's the latest that I have). I only have 3 to show right now because I think I'm happiest with those three. I have some other fanart that is coloured. Hardly anything original that's coloured, though. Minus the heads.
I'd make these types of pictures when I'm not happy. These three are mine.
These next two I tried pretty hard with. The first one, done a couple years ago, seems to get attention STILL. I mean, parts aren't right, but I really did try to colour it, though I was overtired. These two characters aren't mine.
I read a cool shading tutorial, and it mentioned when the body is lit from the sun or something, how the midtones have bright a red hue to them (from the blood). Well, I may have oversaturated the red, but I still liked the attempt. This shading was actually simpler than what I would try.
Lastly, I just tried copying from reference. It was difficult because of angles, but I got pretty close, I think! I'll have to try again.
March 8th, 2007 #4
wow <> you improve with every post!!!!!
March 10th, 2007 #5
Weekly Update: March 4-March 10
Thank you so much, mentler! I appreciate you looking! (Oy, those progress days are over at the moment though! I have to trudge along for now. o_o )
This week was far too hectic, so I didn't even get to do much. But I thought I'd show a little test I did for myself!
I was looking for lying (down) pictures when I came across one with a man lying on his back, his young son lying on top of him. So cute! Well, I tried drawing them at school, and it proved a tad difficult.
A couple days later I tried again. I drew the boy with a long head! Proportions were WAY off.
I tried AGAIN! Proportions are less off, that's cool! But I didn't try quite as hard with it.
I did this test because I was wondering why I had trouble drawing people lying on their sides. Obvious answer: I haven't done it enough. I HOPE that's the answer. I even compared drawing the boy's head while he's on his side, to drawing his head as if it's upright. Though I still messed up his head, I do like that the boy looks more his age on the right.
I'll have to keep practicing with the other angles and see if I can keep proportions correct.
Tonight, I just drew some guys jumping. Two different references, but it was good to get their movement in.
March 17th, 2007 #6
Update--March 11-17
I've been so busy, I only ever have time to do this once a week. No wonder it gets buried so deep. But YAY for favourites! Hee hee!
Thanks to everyone who's peeked in! I managed to do some progress on a study type picture in Photoshop 6. It's a little girl with LOTS of freckles: There she is originally!
I tried to get as much accuracy in as possible. Now, I shrunk these images to be the size that I was drawing at. 66.7%.
At first, I was having great trouble finding the shadows and highlights beneath her freckles. I'd deal with those lovely spots later.
I didn't really listen to myself about letting the freckles go. You can see here that I blotched in some places where they might be.
Didn't do much with this next progress, except I touched up the eyes. Probably something else I hadn't noticed, too.
That's the best I got so far. I removed those blotches and tried making larger strokes over some areas. I was driven mad looking at the eyes though. I just wanted to put SOMETHING in them!
I'm getting to a point where I wonder if this is me studying her face, or practicing accuracy. I tried drawing a face from imagination, and BOY did it look ugly! My goodness...oh, and not in the "supposed to be" way, either! More practice is in order, but I'm stuck as to what to do.
March 31st, 2007 #7
An update--March 31
I've had weeks of WORK!! So many assignments, makes me wanna die! I really didn't have time to do anything I enjoy! I only now had a good chance to sketch something nice. Or at least sort of nice.
I tried drawing my little microphone near my computer. Weird angle I was looking from, so that's why the angle is strange. But I still didn't tackle the perspective and angle well. I did like that I made the mic "stem" slender, though!
I then tried one of Seedling's C.A.101 challenges, where you needed to use the d20 dice (I used an online thingy). I got a 7, meaning I had to draw horns and spikes and stuff on something I made from imagination. I tried, making up a lighthouse on an island with some tiny birds. I thought I needed more spikes. But it's more than what I normally attempt.
I hope one day I can do this frequently enough so anyone peeking in can really see my efforts.
April 1st, 2007 #8
Wow that last portrait is great! You have to finish it..I think you should added the ears or whatever she has around her face to start. Just keep messing with until you are satisfied. Keep up the good work!
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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." -Leonardo Da Vinci
April 1st, 2007 #9
Thanks so much, Unbreakable! Yeah, I'm going to keep working on her! I'll actually TRY to finish her up! Baby steps. ^_^ And I'll try the ears and see how far I get.
April 7th, 2007 #10
Updates--End of March to April 7 (VERY slight nudity)
I'm feeling pretty down today. Not sure if I have a purpose and all (in life, in school, in career...whatever). I'm down with these drawings, too. I know they're not interesting, certainly forgettable. I wish I could change that, but my imagination is dull right now. Too much schoolwork, even though exams are all I have left to do.
So, here's what I did over these past weeks:
This was from some anatomy picture online.
So much for trying to draw from my imagination. I can look at something and draw it better.
More progress on the little girl. I've had to "move" things on her face. Still doing it.
I can't remember who's "tuting" in the big Photoshop Tutorials thread here, but they did a really cool colour blend thing. So I tried the same with some different colours to see how I would go about blending them together.
Mainly, I'd have to make a sort of linear path from one colour to the other (or one saturation to another or something). I still have work to do on that, but at least I got some smoother strokes.
There was also a lighting tutorial, though it was on another site. But I learned a bit about how lighting works with reflection and...other terms that I can't recall.
Ugh...hopefully I'll get that shadow one day. The pink burns!! >_<
April 9th, 2007 #11
April 9, just colouring
I thought I'd drop something else in here. I just started another practice to see how I do with colouring in Photoshop...again. I wanted to colour the human arm in this pic:
So this is just a start. First I blocked in colours, but then I started blending more and forgot to save the ugly blocked colours. We'll see what happens next.
PS: If anyone knows the answer to this: How do I change my thumbnail, for when someone is about to click on my thread? I have that hideous pencil sketch of my face and I don't like it.
April 13th, 2007 #12
Soooo many exams... So much writing. -_- I'm starting to feel better though, as in I can draw more than I could with all the schoolwork. Now, if I get a summer job, hopefully it won't keep me from enjoying myself.
Here's more of the arm!
Mmmm...blending is a big problem. I have trouble keeping it simple.
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April 13th, 2007 #13
A lot of good progress here. The digital coloured pictures are particularly inspiring, I must say. Keep it up! You seem to be on the right track.
April 13th, 2007 #14
Thanks a bunch, Chewster! I'll keep up the progress!
April 20th, 2007 #15
Merg...the images are being weird for me...
I'm so glad to be done school for now!! But now I need to find a summer job. Bah...well, as long as it's different from what I've been toiling at the whole year, I'm fine!
So, I'm working on trying to do more stuff within the week. It's very hard for me. I need more energy to really DO more sketches! But for now, I'll keep at it as best I can. Here goes!
Today I drew my Dad sleeping! He was asleep for a decent amount of time, too! So I could have him in that pose for a while! Too bad I couldn't make his hand look better. I had to move it down significantly. Heh!
More practice on the little girl! I'm really smoothing things out for her, but I'm about finished playing with that one. I'm starting to mess things up.
I got some ladies sketched a bit. I bought a stopwatch so I could give myself 30 seconds, one minute and two minutes. I should've showed what I did in those time intervals, but I have the end products right here. Horrible, horrible end products! Well, maybe not SO horrible, but I was really rushing it.
Bought Tria markers the day before yesterday, and since I never really used them, I wanted to have a good grasp on them. They're the new ones, and the store actually had them. Whoo hoo!!
I actually need some help with markers, like when I should shade--before pencil drawing, after pencil, after inking--so they won't smear, blending technique, etc. If anyone has any suggestions or can direct me, please let me know!
And I could totally use anatomy help. I have many characters that I want to draw right now and I...NEED HELP! Please. -_-
Last edited by Jazz; April 20th, 2007 at 06:33 PM. Reason: Fix images so they would show up
April 27th, 2007 #16
April 27
I didn't do too much this time around. I'm having a quarter-life crisis, as far as art is concerned. My style is dying.
Anyhoo, to get on track with preventing that from completely happening, here and there I work. I haven't done nearly enough.
Rocks in my yard.
This was nifty, playing with "wet edges", drawing with a Difference brush in Photoshop.
Swift doodle. But I'd been so inspired by WhisperWM's character, part of the name is "Red Poem". She's cool!
Some shading practice. I tried drawing Wrath (Full Metal Alchemist) in a more realistic sense. It was fun, but frustrating!
I was blocking in colour. It looked much worse than this. Layered the skin, face, eyes, hair and "top" in different levels.
I had fun with the hair! I LOVE doing hair!
The face looked too pale in contrast for my liking. I needed to change the shape and colour of his lips a bit, too.
Oh yeah, needed to work on the eye. The face was SO freakin' wide it wasn't right. Now, I fixed up both, and I made him a different nose because that other one made him look like some crazy woodpecker man.
I was trying to figure out what I did here. Yes! I put on some eye shine, and worked in a little better background. I also fixed up his shoulder a bit. Mind you, that face looks horrid! He's scary, but I could've done better. Haven't practiced in so long. Probably needed to add more shadow on HIS right...Jaw/chin.
April 28th, 2007 #17
These new digitals are looking nice. I'd look into the contrasts in the hair, it seems a bit flattened out, colour-wise.
Otherwise, keep on rocking!
April 28th, 2007 #18
Thank you, Chewster! Though I wanted the colours flat to make the hair dirty looking, I'll take your advice about the contrast, because I suck where contrast and lighting is concerned. Heh! I still don't really know how to cast light on solids of any sort. XD
April 28th, 2007 #19
wow! great progress since i was last in here nice to see the hard work.
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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." -Leonardo Da Vinci
April 28th, 2007 #20
Thank you, Unbreakable! I'll be keeping it up! ^_^
April 29th, 2007 #21
Thanks for dropping by my sketchbook. Yours is quite nice - I like the variety of different subjects: rocks, scissors, etc. Now you just need some paper in there and you can play a game. I also like the fact that you post progress on images so you can see how they improve.
Good luck with finding time to practice. My only practice time really is during lunch, but I usually get some drawing in then. Oh, and I like the little girl - do you have a finished (or as finished as you're going to make it) version that's different from the last one you posted?
Take a look at my series of in-depth critiques, like this one of Salvador Dali's hidden portrait of Lincoln.
Scott's Sketchbook: Check out my sketchbook. Will swap C&Cs.
April 29th, 2007 #22
Scott: Ha ha! Remind me to draw paper one of these days! XD And you're welcome about the SB! It's nice seeing a bunch of different ones!
Thanks for the comments! I greatly appreciate them! I'm glad you like the progress pictures. I think it'll do me well to see them here, so I can be optimistic that I'm TRYING. Ha!
As for the little girl, I've only been doing little touches, that's why her latest progress is hardly noticeable. But, after my break from her, I'll continue possibly as far as adding slight details surrounding her face. Oh yes...and I probably should add the actual freckles she has! Just so hard working with them!
May 3rd, 2007 #23
post #3 is my favorite!!
you are making a lot of progress ... specially with the wacom, there is something really nice going with the pics ...
keep posting!
best regards
"Dream is not what you see while sleeping ...
It is the thing which does not let you sleep. "
May 3rd, 2007 #24
Thank you so much, brunopicinini!! I'll keep going as best I can!
May 4th, 2007 #25
I didn't know what to do with myself this week. I just did a bunch of sketching and one self-portrait (holding up my little board thing to draw on is pretty hard!). Then, tonight I worked on faces, learning from one of the Loomis books. I have so much work to do with faces!! Uggggh, how will my patience withstand it?? >_< But at least I got some practice done!
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heyy jazz, thanks for dropping by my sketchbook again. Didn't get a chance to drop by yours the first time coz there wasn't a link in your signature before heh. Love the improvements in portraits.You're doing all the things i need to do! Keep it up, and maybe soon we'll see that comic of yours drawn in kick-ass art
Take care!
May 6th, 2007 #27
Keep it up Jazz your doing good!
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May 6th, 2007 #28
I can see big improvements! I realy like the portrait of the girl, very good job on that. Keep studying the loomis book, and the studies
Keep up the good work!
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May 6th, 2007 #29
Just responding for now! Ugh...gotta do up a website today. XD
Arimus, thanks a bunch!! Oooh, I knew that SB link would come in handy! I'll keep up with these studies! They're doing me a world of good!
Unbreakable, thanks so much! (And I'm glad you're following my progress!)
Hurley, hello!! Thanks very much for your comments! That loomis book is great! I think I'll be keeping up with it, indeed!
I might update earlier this week with a BUNCH of heads! XD
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Wow! From the moment that you started the digital portrait of the little girl you've come on in leaps and bounds. The way you've done that last self-portrait...... well, look back at your first attempts and see the difference yourself! Well done!


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Oh and Michael is making a mistake no one has called him on... he sweeps the intermediate steps between the big bang and us under the carpet, in fact he goes so far as to point it out. So now he can say, "wow we came from nothing" as if there was nothing and then *poof* look people! nearly-hairless apes banging away on computer keyboards and tablets!
But that's the same error creationists make all the time; they demand to know how species A can just suddenly arise from species B, and if evolution is true when did some chimpanzee mother give birth to a human baby (never mind for now the fact that evolution does not claim we descended from chimpanzees--let's take the stupidities one at a time and not get sidetracked). In other words they insist that evolution works in big steps when we've told them over and over and over and over again that it does not.
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October 20, 2009
ELIZABETHTON, T.N. – Pfeiffer University opened up its 2009-2010 swimming season on Saturday afternoon at Milligan. The men finished with a 140-102 win, while the women dropped a 108-107 heartbreaker to the Buffs. The Lady Falcons broke two more records, in the first two events swam, in the season opener.
In event one, the women broke the 200 medley relay record with a time of 2:08.90, topping Milligan by 14 seconds. Yukina Onoda (Concord, NC) jumped in first, followed by Haley Carter (Huntersville, NC) and Julianna Prim (Yadkinville, NC) while Nicole DiVaccaro (Woodstown, NJ) swam anchor.
In the women's second event, the mile, Prim broke the school record with a time of 18:12.73, four minutes faster than her Milligan opponent. The Lady Falcons won 11 of the 14 total events.
On the men's side, Patrik Persson (Gothenburg, SWEDEN) picked up the Falcons first event win of the season with a first place finish in the men's mile swim. Persson touched for a final time of 18:11.14. Persson also finished with the top spot in the men's 400 free with a time of 4:39.22. David Angell (Parker, CO) scored a couple of event wins in the 200 back (2:16.10) and 200 IM (2:34.94).
Both the men's and women's swim teams will be back in action on Saturday afternoon. Pfeiffer travels to the Virginia Military Institute for a 2:00 p.m. meet.
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November 3, 2011
DURHAM, N.C. Pfeiffer University freshman Jodie Lemons (Madison, NC) dropped in a team-high 12 points hitting four three-point baskets in a 112-27 exhibition loss to the Duke Blue Devils on Thursday night inside historic Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils benefitted from 39 fast break points with 32 steals in the win.
Duke started on a 12-0 run before Lemons hit a pair on long range triples to put the Lady Falcons on the board. Lemons would hit her third-straight three with just over nine minutes to play providing the early offense for the Lady Falcons.
After a Haley Grimsley (Thomasville, NC) free throw, baskets by Brittany Cox (Winston-Salem, NC), Christina Harvey (Locust Grove, VA) and Vontenea Williams (Granite Falls, NC) provided the final bit of offense in the first half. The Blue Devils scored 18 fast break points on 15 steals to take a 53-16 lead at the break.
Shelley Reese (Brown Summit, NC) would drain an early three to start the second half until Carlisha Holivay (Spartanburg, SC) got in on the action at 15:26. Midway through the second, Harvey would knock down both of her free throw attempts before Lemons would continue her great night with an offensive board and put-back with just under six minutes to play.
Pfeiffer will now look to the 2011-2012 season opener playing in the Lenoir-Rhyne Invitational next Friday and Saturday nights. The Lady Falcons will open with the host Bears at 8:00 p.m. Friday night.


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|Wilmington, NC---The Pfeiffer women's cross country team finished 5th in their first race of the season Friday evening at the Seahawk Invitational. The Falcons top runner was Melissa Dunlap who ran the 5K course in 20:22.39 to finish in 22nd place.
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Dunlap, Melissa Pfeiffer University 20:22.39 22
Hillebrand, Meghan Pfeiffer University 21:11.68 28
Rynas, Samantha Pfeiffer University 22:13.22 31
Rynas, Stephanie Pfeiffer University 22:18.24 32
Bristol, Latrese Pfeiffer University 22:45.10 33
Abernathy, Magen Pfeiffer University 22:52.88 34
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Education should trump terror every time
In focusing single-mindlessly on cutting non-military spending to solve our budget problems, rejecting any meaningful increase in revenue, today's Congressional Republicans are disregarding the future, while claiming fiscal responsibility. Even the general, presumably not a liberal, knows they have things upside down and backwards. It's a con game, enriching themselves and their benefactors with one hand, distracting us from its impact with the other.
In surgery training, one of my favorite teachers liked to tell us to "focus on the doughnut, not on the hole." Whatever it meant, it sure sounded sensible; especially at three in the morning. With tunnel vision, today's Congressional Republicans focus only on holes.
One of which is pretending that terrorism is our biggest threat. It's become, among other things, a justification for tossing the Constitution out the window. George Bush started it and, sadly, Barack Obama has continued much of it. Since there'll never be an end to terrorism, calling our response a "war" excuses manifold permanent transgressions, not the least of which is continuing to rack up deficits, buying weapon systems not even the Pentagon wants. (It's a federal jobs program Republicans can support!) Despite expending more on our military than the next thirteen countries combined, Republicans would spend even more, while demanding budgetary balance with no new revenue. Every credible analysis says the same thing: it's impossible without critically reducing spending on everything else, starting with education, but far from ending there. Everything a functioning society needs, left behind like doughnut crumbs.
I'm starting to think the destructive results of such budgetary shortsightedness aren't accidental. Together with voter suppression laws and gerrymandering, Republicans have managed to maintain their hold on the House, despite receiving more than a million and a half fewer votes nationally than Democrats did. To keep voters from recognizing what they're up to, could the degradation of education be part of their game? When your plans run counter to the needs of all but the most favored few, endumbing voters seems a good way to pull them off.
Okay, it's only a theory. Like evolution.
How I wish old-school Republicans and real conservatives, who actually have in their hearts the best interests of our country, would retake their party from those whose narrow self-interest is their only interest. "We want our country back," says the Tea Party. Good. Now maybe it's time to rethink from whom it needs taking: those who consider education a priority, who believe the way to minimize future entitlement costs is to help the next generation escape poverty, who are willing to spend money now to save it in the future; or from those whose only purpose seems to be protection of those whose future is already secure, at the expense of the future of everyone else. For the vast majority of us, the choice seems pretty obvious. And yet, fully Foxified, people vote against themselves, convinced they're doing the opposite. It's puzzling.
Unrecognized by most people, the deficit has been decreasing rapidly, and was projected to fall steadily for the next several years, even before sequestration happened. Which is not to say it's solved. But in fixing it we simply can't ignore our long-term needs: education, the environment, health care, infrastructure. Dismissive of such frivolities, today's Congressional Republicans just say no. But surely there's a rational way to tackle debt that doesn't amount to slow suicide. Surely there are Republicans who understand the need to think outside their own doors.
Having grown up with thoughtful Republicans in my family and among my family's friends, my hope is that those who still exist (I take it on faith that they do) will speak up while there's still time, helping their party to regain a toehold on terra firma. I know the worst Republican in Washington State is better than the best in, say, Texas or Georgia. Those states, it's clear, will keep electing crazy and regressive troglodytes like Ted Cruz and Paul Broun, no matter what. All the more reason for sane conservatives to be heard, rather than drowned in overheated and under-steeped tea.
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The IRS may finally have an answer to its long struggle to update and upgrade its major systems that collect and track the nation's revenue.
The tax agency isn't getting more money or more people, or even that technology silver bullet. Instead, Terry Milholland, the IRS chief technology officer, went after the agency's business processes.
Milholland said the IRS earned level 3 certifications for the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
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Milholland could attribute some of those problems to a lack of systems development discipline.
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To break the guild culture, Milholland decided to take the IRS on the path toward CMMI and ITIL maturity.
Each level takes 18-to-24 months and is as much about change management as it is about changing internal processes.
"Each master has a favorite programming language, say C# or C++, or someone decided this application would run on Solaris because they liked it. The change now is that decision is taken away," he said. "You have architecture process in which we have selected certain technology standards that you will follow and you no longer have that choice. For example, I declared Java would be our standard development language and along with that comes a number of tools and that the environments we would develop on would be Linux."
Milholland said developers still can make their case if they can show why the standards will not work.
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Reciprocating engines are used extensively for power generation in a variety of applications, most notably within the automobile industry. In the design process, it is important to ensure that all of the engine's parts can withstand high stresses and loads in order to maximize the operational lifetime. Here, we analyze fatigue in an engine's connecting rods.Read more ⇢
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When simulating fatigue, you are faced with two main challenges. The first is to select a suitable fatigue model for your application and the second is to obtain the material data for the selected model. I recently addressed the first challenge in the blog post "Which Fatigue Model Should I Choose?". Today, I will address the second challenge and discuss how you can obtain fatigue model parameters.Read more ⇢
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The most frequent question we get regarding the Fatigue Module is "Which fatigue model should I use in my simulations?" There is no straight answer to this question, since fatigue is not based on an exact differential equation, but on engineering observations that lead to different physical models. The applicability of each model can depend on factors such as material and loading type. Today, I will discuss different approaches for fatigue model selection and the applicability of the different models.Read more ⇢
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Today, we invite guest blogger Nagi Elabbasi of Veryst Engineering to share the work they performed on simulating wear in COMSOL Multiphysics. Using COMSOL Multiphysics, we implemented a wear model and validated it by simulating a pin-on-disc wear test. We then used the model to predict wear in an automotive disc brake problem. The results we found showed good agreement with published wear data.Read more ⇢
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Modular orthopedic devices, common in replacement joints, allow surgeons to tailor the size, material, and design of an implant directly to a patient's needs. This flexibility and customization is counterbalanced, however, by a need for the implant components to fit together correctly. With parts that are not ideally matched, micro-motions and stresses on mismatched surfaces can cause fretting fatigue and corrosion. Researchers at Continuum Blue Ltd. have assessed changes to femoral implant designs to quantify and prevent this damage.Read more ⇢
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Research on fatigue started in the 19th century, initiated following failing railroad axles that caused train accidents. In a rotating axle, stress varies from tension to compression and back to tension in one revolution. The load history is simple because it is uniaxial and proportional. Fatigue can then be evaluated with the S-N curve, also known as the Wöhler curve, which relates stress amplitude to a component's life. In many applications we deal with multiaxiality and non-proportional loading. In this […]Read more ⇢
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In many applications, loads applied to structures are random in nature. The sampling results of the structural response will differ depending on the data collection time. Although the stress experienced is not always high, the repeated loading and unloading can lead to fatigue. The engineering challenges in these types of applications are defining the stress response to the random load history in the critical points, and predicting fatigue damage. This is simulated with the Cumulative Damage feature in the Fatigue […]Read more ⇢
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If you've studied structural mechanics you're probably familiar with stories of planes falling out of the sky due to fatigue (no one wants to be the engineer who designed an airplane that crashed…). Jimmy Stewart made a famous movie about that, but different from the usual horror stories of fatigue is the accident in 1919 of a storage tank that burst in Boston, spilling molasses onto the streets at 35 mph (56 km/h). The Boston Molasses Disaster, as it's referred […]Read more ⇢
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