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how to show the stress in the thickness direction when you use the shell element with abaqus

Submitted by hua_2001 on

hello,

  •      i simulate some process using shell elment, i find the results have big difference between abaqus and lsdyna. the abaqus results always show the stress in the thickness direction is zero. but the lsdyna is not. i don't know why? if some one know that, please give me some suggestions. i heard that the abaqus can not show that stress component. if not, how can i do to calculate that and fill it into the results file (.fil file). thank you!

 

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A question about deformation gradient in ABAQUS user subroutine VUMAT

Submitted by billowriver on

I have a question about deformation gradient in VUMAT.

When I use one element, Vumat works well and there is no any problem. Initially, only the diagonal part of deformation gradient is one, the others are zero. However, the problem is when several elements are considered, all the components of deformaiton gradient are equal to one at very beginning.

Stress intensity factors for a slanted crack under compression

Submitted by Julien Jonvaux on

Hello everyone,

Here is the problem I have: I'm modeling the geometry of a simple straight edge crack in a 2D elastic medium using Abaqus. I assume plain stress conditions. The crack makes an angle with the horizontal, is small enough to be considered as embedded in an infinite domain (ratio crack length/size of domain < 1/10) and I apply a vertical compressive load on top of my domain. I fixed one point in displacement at the bottom of it and the whole bottom edge is constrained not to move vertically.