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Shell-to-Solid submodeling in ANSYS (APDL)

Submitted by Reza Afshar on
Dear All

I have a question regarding Shell-to-Solid submodeling in ANSYS (APDL). I have followed the ANSYS help, but even for the same geometry used by ANYS, the stress values on the submodel are very high and at the wrong position.

I was wondering if any one has a tutorial on Shell-to-Solid submodeling in ANSYS (APDL) or any hints regading this type of submodeling?

Thank you in advance

Reza 

Weakness

Submitted by mohammedlamine on

Hi all,

There are several formulae allowing the computation of tetrahedral volume elements. The weakness of some of them is that they give negative volumes. This is due to the vector dot product and its direction. You must take care when using them.

You have to check your formula with some simple examples like the vertices of the following one: (1,0,0) , (0,1,0) , (0,0,1) , (0,0,0). 

 

Mohammed lamine Moussaoui 

Pull out in fabric

Submitted by jagan on

Dear all,

 I have been trying to model pull of single yarn in abaqus and model is responding. i got a problem now. I am applying velocity in one of the yarn and I am pulling it out.Boundary conditions are fixed on both the sides. to calculate the force that is being applied on to the fabric, pull out force, I summed up all the reaction quantites RF1,RF2,RF3 and i plotted it against displacement. but the force is touching zero sometimes. i dont know the reason. what could it be?

 P.S. : I have attached my pull out graph also.

 

regards

Focused Section on Mechanics of Carbon Nanomaterials

Submitted by Yonggang Huang on

Carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes, graphene, …) have received significant attention from the academia and industry in the past two decades owing to their superior material properties. Mechanicians have played a major role in the fundamental understanding of the mechanical properties of carbon nanomaterials, and in their wide-range applications. 

Unknown error with abaqus 6.122 with user subroutines

Submitted by mannesantana on

I have been trying to run an analysis with the user subrouting UMAT in abaqus 6.12. I have microsoft visual studio 10.0.40219.1 and fortran 10.1.034. I think I linked the compiler correctly, and the path variable should have all the necessary adresses. However, when I run the verification cpp_make, fortran_make, and std_user show errors. here is the fortran_make.txt file: