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Maxwell viscoelastic model in ABAQUS

Submitted by ahmadalhajahmad on

Hi Guys,

I have the shear relaxation modulus given as: G(t)=Go*EXP(-t/tau). In ABAQUS, the normalized shear modulus for one term in Prony series is given as: g(t)=Go(1-g1(1-EXP(-t/tau)). The parameters that must be entered in ABAQUS are g1 and tau. For Maxwell (in our case) G(t=infinity)=0.

Consequently, g1=1-G(t=infinity)/Go=1. ABAQUS requires that g1 must be less than 1. Has anyone encountered this problem?

thanks

Ah

Compression Testing of alumina ceramics

Submitted by ash74u on

 

Hi all ,

We were doing compression testing of alumina using Instron compression testor. plates used to compress the specimen is made up of Steel. When we applying load in elastic region we are not able to see right deflection because of compliance. Deflection of alumina is not clear as we are getting lots of compliance error. Has anyone faced similar problems. Is changing the steel plate and using any hard material in place of steel is the solution.

 Thanks

 

Does anyone use FEAP here?

Submitted by yofee on

Hi everyone,



Does anyone using feap software?

Currently I'm attempting to compiling FEAP at Visual Studio.  After I successfully building of both library and executable,



It shows "========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========".  I considered this as a successful compilation.

However when I run in command prompt: feap -itherm_2d  (It's the 5th example input file in FEAP software),  the errors pops up as :