Mutliscale designer with abaqus

Sachin Francis_20762
Sachin Francis_20762 Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hello, 

 

Have anyone tried to use the mutliscale designer with abaqus as solver. I intend to use multiscale designer to generate a material model that will be used to model progressive damage. I wanted to know if there is any known problem with using abaqus as solver. I see in the manual that element deletion is not supported while using multiscale designer with abaqus. Has this been fixed is there any update on this.

 

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  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2020

    i don't think there's any issue with using Abaqus as solver with MDS.

    I believe the embed documentation covers the steps and limitations concerning this connection.

     

    In MDS as far as I understand, you would embed the failure modes into the material model, and then get a uservariable as an output, pointing for possible failures or not, so there will not be explicit element deletion itself, but a 'flag' showing for failures for each element.

     

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  • Sachin Francis_20762
    Sachin Francis_20762 Altair Community Member
    edited June 2020

    i tried to run simulation of a simple tension test (a shell model in abaqus) using multiscale non linear material model following the manual. But the results doesnt capture non-linearity and stress just keeps increasing. But the virtual tension test(UNT/C) in MDS seems to give more reasonable result. Thats why I was wondering if this problem is specific to abaqus, have anyone tried it?

  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee
    edited June 2020

    are you looking at which stress results?

    At least for OptiStruct, there's the 'regular' stress, homogeneized, and there are a bunch of UVARs, representing the multiscale results, that involves the more detailed results, such as failures, stresses in each phase, and so on.

    Did you find these?

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