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Periodic Boundary Conditions for uniaxial compression

Submitted by Gouse on

Dear All,

I am trying to simulate mechanical behaviour of a concrete unit cell for uniaxial compression laoding. I have apllied periodic bounadary conditions on both lateral edges using linear equation option available in ABAQUS where as on top and bottom edges load is apllied. Deformed structure shows there is no lateral deformation and unit cell behaves as if it is confined laterally on both sides. I am confused about my boundary conditions whether they are correct or not. 

 Equation used to aplly periodic bounadary condition are

concrete stress strain curve

Submitted by omaromar on

i make FEA for my master research in ANSYS PRO., i simulate a prestressed concrete beam with two precast units connected by contact element (CONTA.52). i used solid 65 for concrete modelling and link 8 for for prestressing steel with initial strain, i entered the stress strain curve for the concrete with linear isotropic, concrete and multilinear isotropic in five points as below:

strain=0.0004    stress = 12 Mpa

Strain = 0.001   stress = 30 Mpa

Strain = 0.0015   stress=37.5 Mpa

Dynamic Modeling for Viscoelastic material using ANSYS

Submitted by parimal_maity on

Hello,

I am planing to model a viscolestic material in ANSYS and condition is dynamic.

Could anyone please suggest what are the essential things (i mean datas) required for modeling a viscoelastic material?

For example, If I do the DMA test of viscoelastic materials i can have the modulus data at different frequencies. How to use those data in ANSYS to find out the stress-strain curve?

Thnaks for your kind help

parimal maity