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strain rate in VUMAT

Dear all,

I am struggling with the VUMAT subroutine. I want to implement a strain rate dependence model regardless of the physical sense first. I suppose that the strain rate can be calculate by STRAININC/DT. It's supposed that the shear stiffness component depends on the shear strain rate (it equals straininc(np,4)/dt) if the strain rate is higher than 10 s-1. But now I found it wasn't working if using "straininc(np,4)/dt" in the condition "if() then". I mean if the shear strain rate is calculated from straininc(np,4)/dt, the VUMAT code wasn's working. But I found there is another variable named strainrate. I don't know what it is, maybe it's an internal variable. If I use the variable named "strainrate" directly as the consition, the below VUMAT code is working. I feel confused about the issue. I want to track the "straininc(np,4)/dt" and "strainrate" and check what happens. But I don't know how to state the two variables. In fact, I have tired "write(*,*)", but I cannot find the output. Maybe I made a mistatke when I use the "write". Now I want to output the variables for all time steps and to trach the "SR" in the below code. Could anybody help me? Or do you know anything about the two variables? Thanks a million.

Haibin

I copy my code as follows.
C************************************************* *********
C VUMAT FOR STRAIN RATE DEPENDENT STIFFNESS MODEL, ORTHOTROPIC MATERIELS
C WRITTEN BY HAIBIN ZHU
C************************************************* *********
SUBROUTINE VUMAT(
C READ ONLY (UNMODIFIABLE)VARIABLES -
1 NBLOCK, NDIR, NSHR, NSTATEV, NFIELDV, NPROPS, LANNEAL,
2 STEPTIME, TOTALTIME, DT, CMNAME, COORDMP, CHARLENGTH,
3 PROPS, DENSITY, STRAININC, RELSPININC,
4 TEMPOLD, STRETCHOLD, DEFGRADOLD, FIELDOLD,
5 STRESSOLD, STATEOLD, ENERINTERNOLD, ENERINELASOLD,
6 TEMPNEW, STRETCHNEW, DEFGRADNEW, FIELDNEW,
C WRITE ONLY (MODIFIABLE) VARIABLES -
7 STRESSNEW, STATENEW, ENERINTERNNEW, ENERINELASNEW )
C
INCLUDE 'VABA_PARAM.INC'
C
DIMENSION PROPS(NPROPS), DENSITY(NBLOCK), COORDMP(NBLOCK,*),
1 CHARLENGTH(NBLOCK), STRAININC(NBLOCK,NDIR+NSHR),
2 RELSPININC(NBLOCK,NSHR), TEMPOLD(NBLOCK),
3 STRETCHOLD(NBLOCK,NDIR+NSHR),
4 DEFGRADOLD(NBLOCK,NDIR+NSHR+NSHR),
5 FIELDOLD(NBLOCK,NFIELDV), STRESSOLD(NBLOCK,NDIR+NSHR),
6 STATEOLD(NBLOCK,NSTATEV), ENERINTERNOLD(NBLOCK),
7 ENERINELASOLD(NBLOCK), TEMPNEW(NBLOCK),
8 STRETCHNEW(NBLOCK,NDIR+NSHR),
8 DEFGRADNEW(NBLOCK,NDIR+NSHR+NSHR),
9 FIELDNEW(NBLOCK,NFIELDV),
1 STRESSNEW(NBLOCK,NDIR+NSHR), STATENEW(NBLOCK,NSTATEV),
2 ENERINTERNNEW(NBLOCK), ENERINELASNEW(NBLOCK)
C
CHARACTER*80 CMNAME
C
PARAMETER( ZERO = 0.D0, ONE = 1.D0, TWO = 2.D0, THREE = 3.D0,
1 THIRD = ONE/THREE, HALF = .5, TWOTHIRDS = TWO/THREE,
2 THREEHALFS = 1.5D0 )
Q11 = PROPS(1)
Q12 = PROPS(2)
Q22 = PROPS(3)
Q13 = PROPS(4)
Q23 = PROPS(5)
Q33 = PROPS(6)
A = 7E9
B = 7E4
C
C
DO NP = 1, NBLOCK
C Copy the values of strains into temp variables

ES1 = strainInc(NP,1)
ES2 = strainInc(NP,2)
ES3 = strainInc(NP,3)
ES4 = strainInc(NP,4)

C COMPUTE THE STRAIN RATE DEPEDENT STIFFNESS AND LAM CONSTANTS
SR = strainrate
C SR = strainInc(NP,4)/DT
C IF THE STRAINRATE IS NOT 0, Q22 IS STRAINRATE, OTHERWISE, Q22 IS 10E9
IF (SR.GT.10) THEN
Q66 = A+B*(LOG(SR))
C stressNew(NP,1) = stressOld(NP,1)+Q11*ES1+Q12*ES2+Q13*ES3
C stressNew(NP,2) = stressOld(NP,2)+Q12*ES1+Q22*ES2+Q23*ES3
C stressNew(NP,3) = stressOld(NP,3)+Q13*ES1+Q23*ES2+Q33*ES3
C stressNew(NP,4) = stressOld(NP,4)+Q66*ES4*2
ELSE
Q66 = 7E9
END IF
C
stressNew(NP,1) = stressOld(NP,1)+Q11*ES1+Q12*ES2+Q13*ES3
stressNew(NP,2) = stressOld(NP,2)+Q12*ES1+Q22*ES2+Q23*ES3
stressNew(NP,3) = stressOld(NP,3)+Q13*ES1+Q23*ES2+Q33*ES3
stressNew(NP,4) = stressOld(NP,4)+Q66*ES4*2
C

C
C-----UPDATE THE SPECIFIC INTERNAL ENERGY--------
C
STRESSPOWER = HALF *
1 ( ( STRESSOLD(NP,1)+STRESSNEW(NP,1) )*STRAININC(NP,1)
2 + ( STRESSOLD(NP,2)+STRESSNEW(NP,2) )*STRAININC(NP,2)
3 + ( STRESSOLD(NP,3)+STRESSNEW(NP,3) )*STRAININC(NP,3)
4 + ( STRESSOLD(NP,4)+STRESSNEW(NP,4) )*STRAININC(NP,4)*TWO )
C
ENERINTERNNEW(NP) = ENERINTERNOLD(NP)
1 + STRESSPOWER / DENSITY(NP)
C
C-----UPDATE THE DISSIPATED INELASTIC SPECIFIC ENERGY--------
C
PLASTICWORKINC = 0
C
ENERINELASNEW(NP) = ENERINELASOLD(NP)
1 + PLASTICWORKINC / DENSITY(NP)
C
END DO
C
RETURN
END
C
C

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Frank Richter's picture


Hello,

study these chapters in the manual (section numbers depend on release of your Abaqus !):

13.2.1 USER SUBROUTINES: OVERVIEW

3.6.1 FORTRAN UNIT NUMBERS USED BY Abaqus

 

here is an example:

IF (condition fulfilled) THEN
   open(15,file='Exp.rpl',position='append')
   write(15,*) TIME(2), RPL
   close(15)
END IF


I do not remember right now if 'Exp.rpl' is to be preceded by the full path to the file.

to write to log file:
IF (condition fulfilled) THEN
    print*, NDI
END IF

 

Below is an instruction from http://simulia.custhelp.com

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      Question
      How can I create and/or access files in the Abaqus work directory from a FORTRAN user subroutine?
   
      Answer

(The following applies to Abaqus 6.3 and higher.)

Abaqus analyses are executed in a temporary scratch directory that is deleted upon job completion; therefore, the user subroutine code sees the temporary scratch directory as the current working directory. If the user subroutine needs to perform file I/O, one of two methods must be employed:

    File access is specified using the full path to the working directory

    This method is the least friendly in that the working directory path is defined within the user subroutine at design time. Any changes to the working directory requires a change to the subroutine and a new build.
   
    File staging to the scratch directory

    For this method, an onJobStartup() routine will copy input files to the scratch directory before they are used. When the analysis is complete an onJobCompletion() routine will copy the output files back to the working directory. A partial implementation of this procedure for HPC jobs is documented in Saving files generated by user subroutines
   
    Use the Abaqus user subroutine GETOUTDIR utility.

    This utility retrieves the full path to the job's working directory. The output can be paired with the filename and then used in the FORTRAN OPEN statement to open a new or existing file. The following is in example of this procedure.

        c    ...
             CHARACTER*256 OUTDIR
             INTEGER LENOUTDIR
             CHARACTER*256 MYFILE
        c    ...
             CALL GETOUTDIR( OUTDIR, LENOUTDIR)
             MYFILE=OUTDIR(1:LENOUTDIR) // '/myfile.data'

             OPEN (UNIT=16,FILE=MYFILE,STATUS='unknown')
        c    ...
        c    Do something with the open file
        c    ...
             CLOSE(16)
        c    ...

For more information see:

    'Obtaining the Abaqus output directory name,' Section 2.1.3 of the Abaqus User Subroutines Reference Manual.
    Saving files generated by user subroutines
    Staging additional input files needed by user subroutines

 

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haibin zhu

hamid-moaieri's picture

dear HAIBIN ZHU

could you please the theory of your code please?

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