Extension of the ANSYS® creep and damage simulation capabilities


Extension of the ANSYS® creep and damage simulation capabilities

Altstadt, E.; Mössner, T.

The user programmable features (UPF) of the finite element code ANSYS® are used to generate a customized ANSYS-executable including a more general creep behaviour of materials and a damage module. The numerical approach for the creep behaviour is not restricted to a single creep law (e.g. strain hardening model) with parameters evaluated from a limited stress and temperature range. Instead of this strain rate - strain relations can be read from external creep data files for different temperature and stress levels.
The damage module accumulates a damage measure based on the creep strain increment and plastic strain increment of the load step and the current fracture strains for creep and plasticity (depending on temperature and stress level). If the damage measure of an element exceeds a critical value this element is deactivated.
Examples are given for illustration and verification of the new program modules.

Keywords: Creep; Plasticity; Finite Element Method; Fortran

  • Open Access Logo Wissenschaftlich-Technische Berichte / Forschungszentrum Rossendorf; FZR-296 Juli 2000
    ISSN: 1437-322X

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