I want to use crushable foam model in abaqus. How can I determine the compression yield stress ratio and plastic Poisson's ratio experimentally?

I want use crushable foam model for Aluminium syntactic foam. How to determine the Compression yield stress ratio and Plastic Poisson's ratio from compression test data.

06 July 2018 3,623 0 View

How to model aluminium cenosphere syntactic foam in Abaqus software?

Please suggest how to do compression test on aluminium cenosphere syntactic foam. The modelling and assign the material properties using Abaqus software.

06 July 2018 9,049 5 View

What is this Abaqus error means - History output requests exceeded?

11 December 2016 1,154 4 View

What will be the Shear Failure value for Aluminium??

For element deletion in abaqus explicit, a shear failure keyword is used. How this shear failure is determine for ductile material. Please anyone suggest.

11 December 2016 1,012 2 View

How can I simulate low velocity impact damage in composite material with Abaqus?

I want to model low velocity impact damage on composite plates. I don't know anything about it. Could anyone help me? Tutorial, book or etc

02 March 2016 787 3 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

How to show arrows over the streamlines in CFD-post?

I follow this to make streamlines like the photos attached below: (software- CFD post-processing) First I plot the 2D streamline over a surface "streamline 1". them I plot a vector by the...

01 March 2021 8,668 3 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

Can Virtual Servers (remote dekstop manager) run heavy ANSYS Fluent CFD simulation ?

I have a virtual machine. My host Pc specs are not that good thats why i went for virtual servers. so basically my host pc has 8gb of ram with nvidia quadro k2200 4Gb DDR5 GPU ,processor intel...

01 March 2021 8,415 1 View

How to increase mesh quality of a cfd model in ansys fluent?

How can one improve mesh skewness, orthogonality, aspect ratio?

28 February 2021 7,730 3 View

How can we simulate an hyperelastic-viscoelastic behavor with Ansys APDL?

I am working on modeling and simulation of biomecanical material behaviour, I have succeded on simulating skin using anisotropic hyperelastic material, on APDL and in our lab's finite element...

28 February 2021 552 3 View

Complex wave form in ANSYS?

Is there a way to input wave speed in a complex form on ANSYS? The wave speed I need to assign a material is 325(1+0.11i) however I have been unable to do this thus far. Failing that, is there...

27 February 2021 5,969 1 View

What is the best way to calculate the angles of twist for concrete columns subjected to torsional moment using finite element software?

In Finite element software like ANSYS , there is difficulty in obtaining direct results of twisting of concrete members because SOLID65 which is the unique element designed to represent concrete...

26 February 2021 3,806 2 View