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Course Dates

This course is presented in two lecture sessions from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT; lectures and demos will be presented by the instructor during this time.  There is a half-hour break in the middle of each lecture session (10:00 - 10:30 p.m. PT). The workshop sessions are conducted offline with technical support provided by SIMULIA West via email and telephone from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. PT.

Now offered in-person and online simultaneously as SIMULCAST training

Pick the option that best suits your needs and schedule. This course is offered online as well as in-person in the San Francisco bay area, CA.

Objective

Damage framework will be introduced for crack propagation studies. You will learn the specific modeling and analysis techniques used for conducting VCCT, cohesive behavior and XFEM analyses. In addition, you’ll learn how to successfully apply stabilization and viscous regularization to obtain accurate results from these highly discontinuous analysis types.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Damage framework available in Abaqus
• Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT)
• Introduction to cohesive behavior
• Cohesive Surfaces and Elements
• Extended finite element method (XFEM)
• Stabilization techniques for VCCT, cohesive behavior and XFEM
• Damage specific output requests
  
  

Who Should Attend

This course is recommended for engineers with experience using Abaqus who are interested in performing delamination and/or crack initiation- and propagation- based studies using the damage-based framework available in Abaqus.

Pricing

The registration cost for this course is $580. We offer sizable discounts for group registrations from the same site†. The table below lists the discount pricing schedule. Registrations after September 18, 2012 may incur an additional processing fee of $50 per person. SIMULIA West reserves the right to decline registrations received after the deadline.

†Above discounts apply to attendees registering together on one registration form and providing one form of payment.

Academic Discount
A discounted registration fee of $200 is offered to all academic institutions on a space available basis. This discount cannot be combined with the multiple attendee discount. The registrations with the academic discount will not include workshop support.

What is Included

Electronic copies of the training notes will be provided to each registrant for their personal use. Every registrant will also receive a copy of Abaqus Student Edition. Many of the topics covered in this course can be practiced using Abaqus Student Edition; however, to ensure that you can perform all the course workshops fully, you will need access to a licensed copy of Abaqus. No additional Abaqus licenses will be provided.