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Cohesive behaviour for Interaction in Abaqus Explicit at the interface of materials

Submitted by Venkat Bharath on

Hi,

I am working on effects of Blast Loading in sandwich composites using Abaqus. I want to incorporate Cohesive behaviour at the interface of the two materials in the sandwich composite structure i am analysing.

Effect of surface hardness in tensile testing

Submitted by GOPALAERO2000 on

Hi Everyone,

 Is is possible to account the surface hardness effect in the tensile testing specimen? If possible, how could it be acomplished?

For instance, I would like to establish the  stress strain curve for the material that used on surface hardened component. Will there be a big change if the surface hardness effect is considered on the tensile specimen?

 

Please throw some light in this regard.

 

Thanks

M Gopalakrishnan

Abaqus Standard: Overconstraints & Negative Eigenvalues

Submitted by looyong on

hi, i am using Abaqus standard to model a reinforced beam-column connection subjected to a tip load at the end of the beam. 

i first applied a gravity load followed by a tip load at the end of the beam. halfway through the application of the tip load, abaqus standard

stop and give 2 errors.

1) overstraint at certain nodes of my longitudinal reinforcement

2) negative eigen values

A question on UMAT implementation of non-local theory

Submitted by Liu Jinxing on

 

Hi, friends,

Now, I am implementing the non-local continuum theory in ABAQUS through UMAT programming.

Unfortunately, I have been obstacled by the following question:

On one hand, in non-local continuum theory, the non-local strain of every particular integration point is determined by the global strain field all over the specimen.

Viscoplastic OR elasto-viscoplastic simulation

Submitted by T.ZENG on

When reading papers about visco-plastic or elasto-viscoplastic simulation, all authors only say that the orientation of grain used in the simulation can be randomly generated, and does not refer to how to generate them. I know the orientation of grain can be expressed by Euler angles (phi1, ph, phi2), but can someone give me advice how to generate euler angles?