Negative hardening parameter in NLSTAT thermal analysis

gopal_rathore
gopal_rathore Altair Community Member
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hi,

I am working on a NLSTAT thermal analysis where I have a temperature dependent material properties (at two temperature conditions)

 

Used the foll. material cards:

1) MAT1 , MATS1

 

Used TABLSE S1 along with TABLE ST FOR Stress-Plastic strain curve and temperature value

 

Facing the foll. error now

 

 *** ERROR # 3017 ***
 Negative hardening parameter H = -22964.325723 found. 
 Negative value of H violates Drucker's stability postulate. 
 This error prevents further computations and must be corrected.

Answers

  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited February 2019

    During the nonlinear iterative solving process, the temperature loading is applied incrementally just as other loadings. As the temperature changes, the stress-strain curves will change as well. So it is possible that the negative H happens in the curve generated at the final iteration. I would suggest to check the data input carefully in HM to make sure all the data curves are correctly input.

  • gopal_rathore
    gopal_rathore Altair Community Member
    edited February 2019

    Hi,

    I have got temperature mapped on the nodes of the mesh and are in the range of 550K -599 K.To consider this temperature values , I have ,made two stress-strain curves i.e one at 373 and second at 573

     

    Order in TABLEST is 373 K and then 573 K

     

    Does the solver goes for linear interpolation between tow temperature values?

     

    let me know if there is any ambiguity in the table

     

     

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  • Rahul Rajan_21763
    Rahul Rajan_21763 New Altair Community Member
    edited February 2019

    I don't think we do extrapolation in this case, hence the error.

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