Many material that are used nowadays are composites: they consist of more than one material. To simulate a composite, different approaches can be taken at different length scales.

On the micro scale, a detailed model of all materials with their geometries and interaction can be made. This provides insight into the behavior of the combined material, but it can be difficult to determine boundary conditions that match realistic situations.

The next in the webinar series will cover sequential and fully coupled thermal-stress analyses using Abaqus. 

The three modes of heat transfer, conduction, convection and radiation will be covered, along with how these are defined in CAE.

Frequently a thermal analysis is coupled to a stress analysis in order to determine the impact of thermal loading on the structural behaviour.  If the structural behaviour will not influence the thermal behaviour, a sequential analysis approach can be adopted, but if the thermal behaviour is coupled to the structural behaviour, a fully coupled thermal/stress analysis is required.  This webinar will cover how both forms of analyses are performed.

In this blog post, we will be discussing about steel fibre reinforced concrete (termed as SFRC) and will be showcasing a way (more modelling ways do exist)  to model the interaction between the steel fibre (reinforcement) and the concrete (matrix).

At the 16th & 17th of May 2019, Simuleon will hold a 2-day classroom training at our location in 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. The training is called "Introduction to Isight Training Course"

Isight is a Process Integration and Design Optimization ( PIDO ) software framework, which enables various applications to be easily integrated. With Isight you can create flexible simulation process flows to automate the exploration of design alternatives and identification of optimal performance parameters.

This course comprehensively covers the Design and Runtime Gateways along with several fundamental components, exposing users to the ways in which a workflow can be built in Isight and the ways in which the design space can be explored.

The “Introduction to Non-Linear Analysis Workshop” on the 24th of May, is a free event, held at our location in the Netherlands, for anyone who has some experience of simulation and FEA, but would like to look at extending the scope of the work they do. This workshop is an ideal way to understand what advanced simulation and SIMULIA Abaqus can offer, and find out how easy it actually is to perform a real world non-linear analysis.

In this webinar we will look at some of the characteristics of metal’s inelastic behaviors under monotonic and cyclic loading and how these behaviors can be modelled in Abaqus with the use of inelasticity models. In specific, the bilinear elastic-plastic, kinematic and isotropic hardening plasticity models will be discussed.

Information about the modelling of damage will also be provided for metals experiencing a ductile type of failure.

Geometry is often drawn in 3D, also when it is axisymmetric. The analysis will be much faster when making use of the axisymmetry. In such cases, we need to get an axisymmetric cross-section out of a 3D model. In this blog I will show a way to do this with Abaqus. The main idea is to create a sketch on a cross-section of the part and project the relevant edges to this sketch. This sketch is saved and used to create a new axisymmetric part. This isn't the only way of doing it, but at least it gives an idea.

The “Introduction to Optimization for Abaqus Workshop” is a free event for anyone who has some experience with Abaqus and would like to explore the possibilities of optimization. Both non-parametric topology optimization using Tosca and parametric optimization using Isight are discussed, focusing on the optimization of problems using the finite element code Abaqus.

Some time ago we posted a blog on How to submit and monitor Abaqus jobs through command window. I would now like to revisit this subject, go into a few additional commands and options, including different Abaqus versions and the findkeyword and fetch utilities, and look in a bit more detail to the abaqus commands

In this webinar we will look at three of these modelling techniques; SPH (Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics), CEL (Coupled Eulerian Lagrangian) and DEM (Discrete Element Modelling).  For each technique the webinar will walk through how they are implemented in Abaqus and consider practical examples demonstrating when each technique is most appropriate. 

This capability is available without the need for extended tokens and therefore may be of interest to anyone already familiar with Abaqus.