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Combining UMAT with XFEM
Tue, 2011-05-31 06:12 - Panos Efthymiadis
Hi all,
I 'd like to ask whether anyone has applied XFEM for a user-material (UMAT). What is the process to do that? Could anyone provide some advice, documentation or guidelines?
All the best,
Panos
p.s. I 've heard that a UEL code is needed to couple XFEM with UMAT.
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Could you share some information of this topic?
Hi,
I am now also working on modeling crack propagation considering metal microstrucures. Now I have the same problem as you had one year ago. You must understand this problem much more now. Could you share some information on this topic and give me some advice ?
XFEM and ABAQUS
Get
An Abaqus implementation of the extended finite element method
http://dilbert.engr.ucdavis.edu/~suku/xfem/papers/xfem-abqefm.pdf
it explains the procedure for UEL. Good luck
Frank
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