Tension I
With this series of examples you can study a specimen under tension and see the effects of different number of elements through thickness and different materials. First example shows one element through thickness and plastic material. Download is available in the download section of this document.
Keywords
Keywords
This example has been taken from the introductory class of Prof. Dr. Ala Tabiei. Example name: tension1.k
The used Keywords in alphabetical order.
*BOUNDARY_PRESCRIBED_MOTION_SET *BOUNDARY_SPC_SET *CONTROL_TERMINATION *CONTROL_TIMESTEP *DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT *DATABASE_ELOUT *DATABASE_HISTORY_SOLID_SET *DATABASE_NODAL_FORCE_GROUP *DATABASE_NODFOR *DEFINE_CURVE *ELEMENT_SOLID *END *KEYWORD *MAT_PLASTIC_KINEMATIC *NODE *PART *SECTION_SOLID *SET_NODE_LIST *SET_SOLID *TITLE
Reduced Input
Reduced Input
This example has been taken from the introductory class of Prof. Dr. Ala Tabiei. Example name: tension1.k
*Node and *Element Cards are removed.
*KEYWORD
*TITLE
Specimen Tension 1Elem Through Thickness
$ this example is used to demonstrate the effect of number of elements
$ through the thickness in tension, bending, and combined bending-tension
$ units: mm, s, ton, N
$ A. Tabiei, 3/3/98
*CONTROL_TIMESTEP
0.0000 0.9000
*CONTROL_TERMINATION
0.0050E+00
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
0.0010E+00
*DATABASE_NODAL_FORCE_GROUP
6
*DATABASE_HISTORY_SOLID_SET
3
*DATABASE_ELOUT
0.0001E+00
*DATABASE_NODFOR
0.0001E+00
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*MAT_Plastic_kinematic
11 7.890E-09 2.100E+05 3.000E-01 4.400E+02 1.700E+03 1.000E+00
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*SECTION_SOLID
1 1 1
*PART
SPECIMEN
2 1 11
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*SET_NODE_LIST
5
$ for prescribed displacement
173 174 175 176 177 178 343 344
347 349 351 353
*SET_NODE_LIST
6
$ for constraint
17 18 19 20 25 26 187 188
191 193 195 197
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
$ elements at center
*SET_SOLID
3
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78
79 80
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
$ line of center nodes for load
*SET_NODE_LIST
2
277 278 279 280 281 282
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*DEFINE_CURVE
10
0.00000000000000E+00 0.0000000000000E+00
0.00500000000000E+00 10.000000000000E+00
*BOUNDARY_PRESCRIBED_MOTION_SET
5 1 2 10 1.000E-00
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*BOUNDARY_SPC_SET
6 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*NODE
$
*ELEMENT_SOLID
$
*END
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This example has been taken from the introductory class of Prof. Dr. Ala Tabiei. Example name: tension1.k


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