Hello, everyone.
I'm using a umat subroutine in abaqus to study metal fatigue damage. Now I use one SDV to store damage increment, and multiply a big number (for example 10000) to represent 10000 fatigue load cycle.
But in elastic period, the damage increment is so low that it will take many time. I wonder whether I can use the maximum of damage increment to control cycle number to save some time. It seems that umat subroutine cannot get the maximum value because umat runs in every single integration node.
If there is a solution, please tell me.
Thanks in advance.