Good morning everyone;

I am doing my PHD to study the delamination process of the atherosclerotic plaque. I am new user of Abaqus so i really need help to understand the delamination process using ABAQUS. I did some examples, especially the example ' Debonding behavior of a double cantilever beam'. I tried to understand the structure of the .inp file to create a model which corresponds to the steps given by this file. I found some diffucilties to understand many steps, so i really need a help from an expert who can help me a little or send me a good tutorial abt the delamination process.

SUSHIL SINGH
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Hello,

I have been reading up a lot  on "crack propagation" and "cohesive elements" in Abaqus. But i am still struggling to make it run and frankly i am running out of time. I have got only two more days to get the model running for a kind of "Introducing modern science to the public" exposition... I am trying to simulate crack propagation in rubber material in the case of uniaxial tension.

I recall the problem that i want to simulate: