The 'Utilities' section is free, and all the elements are installed as part of the main installation of Patran.... However, the 'Utilities' menu has to be activated after installation by the user. Alot of the features are incredibly useful, but are not supported (as such) by MSC, which I think...
Thanks for the reply - I'm pretty sure the beam library is different, as that's always been available even without the additional licenses. My understanding is the 'BEAM' module is a visualisation tool that allows stresses around a beam element to displayed in a more meaningful way, by plotting...
Its probably a bit of a 'numpty' question, but....
My company has just bought licenses for the 'BEAM' and 'CAE Solid Modeling' utilites for Patran, the problem being I don't know where to find these features within Patran to be able to test if the licenses are working! Are there extra bits of...
You might want to have a look through this on-line thesis, which studies how to simulate post-weld stresses and deformations with ABAQUS by physically modelling the wedling operation. I found it a good starting point for determining the practical issues associated with this type of simulation...
Phoenix221,
Depends what you mean by integration... I've only ever used Solidworks as a quick way for generating 3D geometry for meshing in Patran. If that's all you want to do, then saving the Solidworks model as a parasolid (.xmt) and importing this parasolid into Patran has always been a...
smg2,
On the ABAQUS website, there is a known bug listed on the status reports as error number V64_1808, which describes your problem pretty much to the letter. (A copy of the report message is shown below)
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The output variables hydrostatic...
Hangglide,
Try the very helpful bunch at the Advance Composites Manufacturing Centre at Plymouth University (www.plymouth.ac.uk). They have a vast experience of resin infusion technology, working both as an academic research department and as a consultancy to range commercial companies. The...
Hi Brad,
Dont know if this is in the links suggested by Lars-erik, but this link...
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~artem/welding.htm
..has been very useful to me for modelling the welding process, especially using ABAQUS. Example decks are included so you should be able to quickly build a model...
I could be barking up the wrong tree completely, but I vaguely remember seeing an 'abaqus update' command in the release notes for 6.3, which I believe is used to transform the odb file from the old format to the new..... I haven;t got the manuals to hand to check this though... sorry if it...
I dont think the carbon/carbon composites used in high performance breaks are the same thing. One of the processes by which the C/C are made is to make a carbon/polymer laminate as 'normal' with the required layup, then heat the whole lot up in controlled conditions to carbonise the polymer...
www.matls.com and www.matweb.com are one-in-the-same site now. All the old info available at matls is availble free at matweb, but if you want 'advanced features' then, yes, you do have to pay a subscription.
GJS
Kevin,
If you are defining the SOLID SECTION with TYPE=COMPOSITE, I dont believe it will make any difference how many elements you put through the thickness. It would appear that ABAQUS applies the TYPE=COMPOSITE according to classical laminate theory, and therfore assumes no shear transfer...
All,
I think vonleuke is heading towards the crux of the problem here.....
Using shell elements appears to be fine with type=composite, but the in-plane stresses my be slightly off....
Using solid elements with type=composites gives shear stress representation no better than a hand calc, but...
Toothroot,
Think I've post this site on another thread, but..
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~artem/CHAPTER_I.pdf
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~artem/CHAPTER_II.pdf
etc is worth a look as it provides sample ABAQUS decks of the code used in this chaps PhD. In ABAQUS the methodology for adding/removing...
Toothroot,
Prex is right.... sounds like your trying to do an analysis of a welding process, or something similar, with metal added to the weld pool as the heat source moves along. Most codes should be able to accomadate this - I've personally done somethign similar with ABAQUS, using the...
Hi kevin,
I've spent a happy aftenoon running test jobs, as I missed the point of your orignal post slightly! I'm getting the same results as you, so went back to basics, using a three layer composite of isotropic materials, the central layer having a stiffness 1/10 of the outer 'plies'.
If I...
Hope someone can help with this, point me in the right direction - or just say it cant be done!
I've got a ANSYS 4.4 input file in binary format, and ultimately I want to be able to read this into Patran 2001r2a DB to view it and add new load cases.
Doing this in one hit is probably too much...
Kevin,
This very problem is discussed in the ABAQUS Benchmark manual, section 1.1.3 of the V. 6.2 documentation. Results for inplane stresses and tranverse shear stresses are compared for solid and shell models..... the same trend that you show in your orignal message is also reflected in...
I dont know much about the process myself, but this link gives the briefest, zero-detail, overview....
http://www.sgl-hitco.com/products/temperature/carbcarb/
Hope it is at least a starting point
GJS
Drej,
This will certainly allow only the nodes from the NSET, nset1 to be included in the transform..... the other part of the original question was that abaqusshell also requires the CSYS specfied for nset1 to move with the deformation of the model as it is loaded. This is the part which I...
