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Contact in Adams/View

Submitted by Jia-Jie Guo on
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Hi, I have difficulties in dealing with contacts in Adams/View: 

ERROR:    Only solids are supported in 3d contacts, some of the geometries used in contact are not valid solids.

I create the parts by writing a command file. Would anyone konw what causes this error? Thanks! 

Surface Based Fluid Cavities, and inflators

Submitted by Nathan Hayes on
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I've been tasked with creating a 3D model of a demo inflatable
structure here in our lab. The goal is to inflate it in ABAQUS, and I
have been making some progress in using the *FLUID CAVITY keyword.
However I'm noticing odd things in my results. I have the pressure of
the gas increase to 4psi in a tabular form, however as I watch the
frame by frame, the stress concentrations on the structure vary oddly,
and the model deforms oddly. Almost as if it was a ball being pressed
back and forth against the floor, expand contract, that kind of deal.

Passing Arguments to script name in abaqus cae

Submitted by bommisettyramu on
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Hi,

i am having a problem in passing a list as an argument to the following command

            abaqus cae noGUI=<scriptname> -- <argument1> <argument2>

 

for example i need to send a list like 4 file names as first argument, how can do the same, can any one help me in doing the same,

 if any example , that helps me more....  

Thanks in advance....

waiting for the reply.... 

 

 

FEAP

Submitted by fernando.romagnoli on
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Hello All,

 

Actually I am analysing the FEM software FEAP, it is a free FEM software that can be downloaded from:

http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/projects/feap/feappv/

Anyone here knows if the software can run ONLY in cmd ?

I mean, I generate an input file I call the solver than the solver generates an output file without opneing any window in my desktop or in my cmd?

 Regards

Fernando Romagnoli 

 

 

 

Mixed Interpolation and LBB condition

Submitted by Andrea75 on

Dear all,

I am asking your point of view about incompressible material simulation (e.g. rubber material) in ABAQUS.

When the material is incompressible a u/p formulation should be used instead of a displacement based formulation.

According to ABAUS manual one of the element suitable for a 3D incompressible analysis is a C3D8H (8 nodes brick for the displacements and constant pressure) or C3D20H (20 nodes brick for the diaplacements and 4 nodes for the pressure).

Finding damping of composite material by using ansys

Submitted by banukiran on

 

 Finding damping of composite  material by using ansys

any one please help me in finding damping of any composite material by using ansys  software and what analysis has to be done regarding that one.generally in ansys damping can be given as input but to get damping as the output of composite material how it can be done what model i has to use?

 

Mohr-Coulomb Shell in Abaqus. Help!

Submitted by pbocchini on
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Hi,

I am new to Abaqus and I am trying to use it to model some industrial shells. According to some preliminar studies, the material has a mohr-coulomb plastic behaviour. Thus, I wanted to use shell elements, with a mohr-coulomb plastic material, but it seems that it is not possible in Abaqus.

According to the theoretical manual and the user manual (18.3.3-6):