Hierarchical analysis of the fracture toughness enhancement of carbon nanotube- (CNT-) reinforced hard matrix composites is carried out on the basis of shear-lag theory and facture mechanics.

Hi All,

I am dealing with contact problems. Can you please post if you have any information on how to resolve the general contact problems.

 thanks and Regards,

Ravitej

Hi All,

many a times in abaqus, we get numerical singularity warnings. which are mainly due to rigid body motion in one or more directions. This will generally happen when there is contact closing and opening phenomenon is happening.  How can we resolve these numerical singularities? Please post if you have any additional information.

 Thanks and Regards

Ravitej

I want to model torsion of a homogeneous hollow cylinder in ANSYS. I changed to cylindric coordinate system also. But each time I run the program  the result is that of bending. I have attached the mac file and output file for reference. Please advise.

finish

/clear

/PREP7  

!*  

ET,1,SOLID92

!*  

!*  

MPTEMP,,,,,,,,  

MPTEMP,1,0  

MPDATA,EX,1,,70e9   

MPDATA,PRXY,1,,0.3  

CSYS,1  

CYL4,0,0,1, ,2, ,10 

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I am trying to call VUSDFLD subroutine before VUMAT. I need to access some variables which are not available in VUMAT. Does anyone know how I can force ABAQUS into calling VUSDFLD before VUMAT? Thanks.

 Ahmad