Hello,
Im trying to model Delamination in abaqus using cohesive surfaces. I did the following :
-created a cohesive intertaction property, defined damage initialisation and evolution in this and then used general contact between 2 surface and used the interaction property for it.
-For the initial crack i left a certain region unbounded and used a double cantilever model.
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Hi,
I am familiar with abaqus python scripting to create odb files and to extract nodal data from an output database (odb) file in ABAQUS. I would like to know whether it is possible at all, to extract the boundary conditions from an odb file. I guess that the boundary conditions are not stored in an odb file. But I am not sure. Any help in this regard ??
I am pursuing my phD in one of the universities in india in fracture mechanics. I have completed all the formalities of my university before submitting the final thesis report like completing the course work examinations and comprehensive vivavoce. My work is related to accurate stress intensity factor determination at the crack tip through FEA approach for a mixed mode crack propagation.I have taken a new methodology suggested in one of the old journal papers in FEM and I have used the formulae mentioned in that paper to extract the SIF results.
Can some of you recommend a source to learn about Discontinuous Galerkin FEM?? I am specifically interested in its application in geomechanics but I need to learn the basics first!
I gave a seminar at Xian Jiaotong University on 27 October 2009. I recently found the video of the seminar online. The seminar was in Chinese, but the slides were in English.
If the subject interests you, the following papers will lead you to the literature.
