I am working on multiscale modeling of composites and I want to explore the capability of FEniCS in modeling composites. Specifically, Can I assign different constitutive laws to different parts in mesh using FEniCS? Can I access the integration points to change the material behavior in a nonlinear analysis?
Thank you.
This us feasible but with some limitations. For example, you may need to allocate a field with thé maximum number of components to hold the internal statue variables.
To be more specific, what would be the different constitutive laws you want to use ?
Dr. Bleyer. Thank you for your reply. I was thinking about general cases. For example, in a fiber-reinforced composite I may want to use a elasto-plastic model for matrix and linear elastic model for fibers. Or in a textile composite I may want to use a elasto-plastic model for matrix and a continuum damage model for yarns. The key point is to connect an user-defined constitutive model to the integration points in FEniCS. Something similar to Abaqus UMAT.
Thank you!
Jeremy Bleyer we could do this with MGIS (MFrontGenericInterfaceSupport) but not mgis.fenics. However, we shall do some plumbering and I can't guarantee that post-processing of internal state variables would ne easily feasible.
For the first case, you can check the following discussion https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/two-weak-forms-in-single-domain/3833/2
Right now the second case cannot be handled smoothly but still remain feasible with some work as suggested by Thomas Helfer . We are currently working on the future dolfin-x version to extend the mgis.fenics module and possibly show how to interface seamlessly FEniCS with any user-defined constitutive model. But this is not ready yet.
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