Plastic deformation using Mechanica FEA

[Idahotroutbum]

I plan on running some plastic deformation models in Mechanica (it's a new option for Wildfire 5.0) and I'm looking for a verification problem so we can be sure to cover ourselves in the quality assurance world. Are there some commonly used sources for this? I think Mechnica comes with a bunch of models for verification that cover everything except plastic deformation.

Also, if anyone has any experiences to share using wildfire 5.0 for the the plastic range of metals I would love to hear about it. Thanks.

 

[ShaggyPE]

You might get more meaningful responses in the PTC/Mechanica sub-forum

http://www.eng-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=828

-Dustin
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