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Porous materials can be created by a variety of methods and exhibit properties that are advantageous in certain applications, e.g. insulation, energy absorption, and core materials in sandwich panels. As the length scale of the pores/ligaments is reduced below one micron, size effects arise and cause changes in the deformation mechanisms that operate in the ligament material. The mechanical properties can change dramatically, especially for so-called “nanoporous metals”, which have pores and ligaments as small as a few nanometers.

Hello everyone,

I have a basic question in ABAQUS. For developing a user element in ABAQUS, the strain-displacement tensor, or the so-called B-matrix, needs to be calculated in the UEL subroutine. Applying the B-matrix on the displacement vector gives rise to the strain vector. However, we know that there are more than one strain measure for corresponding, or in other words, different conjugate stress measures.

 What is here not clear for me is what type of strain tensor is calculated by applying B on the displacement vector: (eps=B.d) what is eps here?

Hi!

Can please help me regarding usage of VGETVRM? I am trying to get material point data of EVF in an eulerian analysis using VUSDFLD but failed. Details is below:

parameter( nrData=6 )

character*3 cData(maxblk*nrData)

dimension rData(maxblk*nrData), jData(maxblk*nrData)

do k = 1, nblock

c jStatus = 1

call vgetvrm('EVF',rdata,jData,cData,jStatus)

EVF=rdata(1)

FIELD(k,1)=EVF

stateNew(k,1)=FIELD(k,1)