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.
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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.
*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
*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