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energy balance of surface-based cohesive of composite under impact in Absqus 6-10

Submitted by moustachiio on

Hi there! I am really new to Abaqus and I need to model a composite
laminated crash cone under impact to a flat solid wall (analytical
surface is used). I modelled a cone with a layers of conventional shell
elements with hashin failure criteria and surface-based cohesive
behaviour as interaction between layers representing the interface of
composite laminates. The model runs successfully but once I checked the
energy balance, the damage dissipation energy from the cohesive, it
turned out to be NEGATIVE (I think this is wrong).

Can anyone tell me how I can obtain the burst pressure from abaqus output/results please.

Submitted by adewole kazeem… on
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I carried out simulations to predict the burst pressure of pipes using Abaqus. I applied internal pressure and the pipe actually busted as shown in the attachment. I requested for pressure to be outputted for nodes and elements sets under “force” in the field output request. When I viewed the result, pressure was not outputted for both the node and the element set.