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Fabric Draping Simulation

Fabric Draping Simulation

Fabric Draping Simulation

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Hi Everyone,

I am looking to model carbon fibre fabric on Solidworks using a VUmat input criterion. I am only at the very start of the process, so if anyone has any experience in this, or knows any good resources, all help would be much appriciated. My first problem at the moment is convergence. I have a small mould drawn up and am trying to simulate a homogenous sheet being stamped over it, but I am having issues with the contact conditions I apply to it. The stamp and sheet are both correctly defined and the loads and BCs are calibrated from tests, so I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. The error message is of the type "too many increments for this job" etc...

RE: Fabric Draping Simulation

(OP)
Apologies, modelling it on Abaqus, I've Solidworks coming out my ears on other projects!

RE: Fabric Draping Simulation

"Too many increments.." is a symptom, not the cause of the disease afflicting your model. If you are *not* familiar with the material model, I strongly recommend switching over to an in-built material and isolate the problem. If you are familiar with the material model, then your best bet is to keep debugging it with print/write statements on a very simple model problem (one/two elements, if possible) to begin with.

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