Hey all,

I am trying to apply an Electric Potential B.C. to a surface. I want to use the dynamic/explicit analysis type, however, when I select that as my step type, the Electric Potential B.C. option disappears from the edit B.C. window! Is that due to a license limitation or an error I might have made in one of the definitions?

Thank you!

Hi,
Concerning the Newmark method with central difference for an explicit resolution I want to know where the parameters beta and gamma come from ?

I have found this :

http://www.stanford.edu/group/frg/course_work/AA242B/CA-AA242B-Ch7.pdf
but how do these parameters appear ?

Using RADIOSS, the theory manual says the remainder of the taylor's series is computed using numerical integration but I don't know which rule is used.

Some explanation needed and appreciated.

Thanks. 

Hi All,

 I am trying to model the inflation of an enclosed elastic cylinder. The only example I have came close to in the Abaqus support documentation is the air bag inflation test. However, even reading the documentation, I am still unsure on how to model the airbag before an inflation force is applied. Can someone help me with this? You can also e-mail directly: manpreet.puri@strath.ac.uk.

Any help would be much appreciated and thanks all for your time to look at this post :) 

Hello everyone,

I am working right now on a plywood box simply supported by wedges under a uniform pressure of 1 MPa.

The pressure is applicated through a rigid shell part layed on the top of the box ( a surface to surface contact). The bottom of the box is on contact (surface to surface) with the rigid shell wedges (2 on the corner of the box and 1 on the middle).  

As a boundary condition, all the DOF's of the wedges are constrained.    

Firslty the Plywood box is squeezed under the pressure until she began to bounce back like a spring and separate from the wedges and flying somewhere!!

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Hi...

 I am doing 2-d simulation of rolling process using ABAQUS/CAE 6.5. I have done with rigid rolls but now I want to do with a deformable roll. I am giving boundary conditions for rotating the rolls at their position. For that, I define the centre of the roll as reference point and then used rigid body constraint. Then I give boundry conditions, U1=0, U2=0 and UR3= Non-zero at the refernce point. But now since I want to use deformable rolls, I can not the give rigid body constraint. Can somebody suggest me as to what kind of constraint should I use for constraining the reference point with the roll? Or some other method to  model deformable rolls?

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Hi everyone!

I need advice, I have to carry out a bridge-truck interaction analysis in ABAQUS FOR CATIA. I don´t know where I can start, the thing is that now I´m going to try doing it, in a simplified model in order to don´t loose time.

Can you help me? Can you give me some advices? how to model de truck? I need more or less precission on the bridge not in the truck. I know how to modelice the bridge, the type of element, the meshing, the connectors... but what I don´t know is how to manage Explicit,

I have thought using explicit, because is a very large model.

Thanks in advance.

I am using
Ansys Ls-Dyna to solve a case where a rigid indentor in the shape of bow
penetrates double skinned structural models. I want to use UPF (User
Programmable Features) in order to define a custom failure criterion. From the “Guide
to Ansys User Programmable Features” I read that the specific subroutine (usrfc6)
for defining custom failure criteria is available only with shell99, solid46
and shell91. However in Ansys Ls-Dyna, the user cannot use neither of the above
shell elements. The only shell element that is used in explicit dynamics is
shell163. Is there any way to program or use my failure criterion in Ansys

Dear Sir,

             1.  In FEM, I have not understood the exact difference between Implicit and Explicit techniques, though I have used both type of solvers.... Can u pls help me out in this?