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Simulate tensile test with damage, ideas?

Submitted by R.Billard on

Hello everybody,



I want to simulate a tensile test using "damage for ductile metals" and "ductile damage". ABAQUS requires three parameters:

-Equivalent fracture strain at damage initiation (a)

-stress-triaxiality (b)

-strain rate (c)

I have already seen Abaqus analysis user's manual (23.2.2), but there's no example. 



Currently, I defined a 3D solid deformable  and an elastic and plastic behavior. I do not understand how to select a first set of parameters for the "ductile damage".

** MATERIALS

**

*Material, name=Aluminum

*Damage Initiation, criterion=DUCTILE

(a), (b), (c)

*Damage Evolution, type=ENERGY or DISPLACEMENT?????????????????

*Elastic

7e+10, 0.33

*Plastic

1.5e+08, 0.

1.8e+08, 1e-05

etc.....

Does anyone has an example or an experience in this type of simulation? Thank you in advance for your help.



Regards.