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wire beam element deletion

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Uniax

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Hi everyone,
I have a model made of wire beams. I am running an explicit analysis. I would like to know if there is a way to delete beams during the analysis whose stress exceeds a certain amount. In my case i would like to delete them once they exceed a value of direct compressive stress.
Thank you for your help.

Best !
 
Yes, element deletion is supported for beams in Abaqus. Check the documentation chapter "Damage evolution and element removal for ductile metals" for details.
 
Hi FEA way!
thanks for the answer. But i already tried a lot of things but the problem is that i want the wire to disappear in case of excessive COMPRESSIVE load. The closer i found was *tensilefailure but it only condider positive stress. If i put a negative value then, at the start of the simulation with my truss at 0 MPa it has already suppresed them because 0>-50 MPa for example....
i just want *compressivefailure but this doen t exist....
 
You can define your own failure criteria using subroutines (like USDFLD) and control element deletion with state variables. Check the documentation chapter "User-defined mechanical material behavior" (paragraph "Deleting elements from a mesh using state variables").

Also, check this thread:
 
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