Hi all,

I am using FEAP 8.2 in my university, and have to write a user material routine, but there is no clear guideline/example about which files to modify for this purpose. Sorry to say, the programmer's manual is very short, and very little detail is there.

The old tutorials/examples based on FEAP (7.x) are no longer helpful because the FEAP 8.2, 8.3 source code has changed considerably (atlease the files in user folder), hence the novice can get mad after trying for many weeks to figure out the way for doing this.

Dear members,

I am a newbie in FEAP and I would like to perform transient heat transfer analysis followed by a series of static analysis using FEAP.  Where does FEAP save the temperature history from the transient analysis and how to use this as input for the static analysis? I am using user constitutive model and most of the material parameters are temperature dependent. Which file do I need to include?

Best regads,

Vivian Tini

  The difference to the common model used is the f,g terms. The 3D FEM formulation has been derived and a new fortran program is written. The derivative matrix is symmetric. But the calculation result does not converge. I have tried every means to get a converging result. But it doesn't work, the residual norm always increases.