mechanician

 Hello,

 I'm modelling an impact of a rigid body with a deformable plate (shell elements) in the dynamic explicit analysis. When defining contact parameters, I can add the damping coefficient. I'd like to know what value is typical for this parameter? After some computations, I've found that 0,01...0,05 was rather good for my model. Is that a reasonable value?

Thanks 

Hello, everyone! When talking about allowable stress, Safety Factor is introduced. While in offshore engineering, there are allowable stress modifier in API and material factor in NPD. So what is the difference between safety factor and allowable stress modifier or material factor? Are they used in special load conditions?

You help will be appreciated. Many thanks! 

Hello everyone,

I need some help regarding the definition of initial residual stresses and plastic strains in a shell finite element (S4R) model in ABAQUS/Explicit.

I have determined the residual stress distributions and initial plastic strains and I need to assign these distributions to a given element set.

I understand I should be looking at:

*INITIAL CONDITIONS, TYPE=STRESS

 ELSET_A, S11, S22, S33

Hello,

 I'd like to know how the computation time depends on the element number in a model (dynamic explicit analysis in Nastran). When I work with a simple model which has a rather coarse mesh the function is linear, so 10 steps with the increment 0.001 is equivalent to 100 steps with the increment 0.0001. But I don't know how this dependency will evaluate if I build a much more complex model. Maybe it will be exponential?

Thank you