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The Abaqus damage model for fiber reinforced plastics has been reimplemented as UMAT user material. As an extension, the plastic behavior of the matrix material is taken into account. Therefore, two modes are considered independently from each other: matrix shear and matrix compression. The original as well as the new material model have been verified by means of single element tests, mesh dependency tests, and the standard plate-with-a-hole problem. In addition, a shell-type structure, namely an industrial model of the Boeing-777 Winglet, has been analyzed.

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In this Technology Brief, a fully coupled fluid-structure interaction analysis of a wind turbine rotor is presented. Abaqus/Standard and STAR-CCM+ are directly coupled through the SIMULIA co-simulation engine. With this approach, a high fidelity modeling strategy can be used to develop an accurate understanding of the blade dynamics.

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: Internally pressurized steel parts, such as components of fuel injection systems, are often treated with manufacturing processes which selectively induce beneficial compressive residual stresses. An available manufacturing technology to do so is hydraulic Autofrettage (AF). With the help of a single over-pressurization, the compressive residual stress field is established right at the most failure critical area of the components, e.g. around the bore in a thick-walled cylinder or at the bore intersection in a pressure distributor block. This allows for the full exploitation of the material potential and the successful implementation of lightweight design concepts. This paper presents several approaches to model the material behavior and the corresponding residual stress generation during AF for two representative geometries.

Customer Papers

Using Abaqus/Standard, this Technology Brief hightlights the impact of various bolt loading assumptions on the flexibility and steady-state dynamic response of an engine head and block assembly. Including assembly load effects in the simulation workflow allows for more accurate prediction of system-level performance, such as engine radiated noise.

Solution Briefs

As the sole tyre supplier for Formula1 Championship, Pirelli Tyre provides the teams with a virtual tyre model to help simulate racing conditions. The highly sophisticated body shape of a F1 car is driven by aerodynamic efficiency and tyre deformation plays an important role in this context. Tyre shape prediction at speeds up 300kph has been achieved by using a combination of Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit. The numerical results have been verified using indoor test bench results. Tyre shape is also the key factor for wind tunnel analysis. The same modeling technique has been applied to wind tunnel FE tyre model.

Customer Papers

This paper presents an automated approach to extract strains of aircraft structural models from widely used CAD and FE environments. The developed approach has been implemented as an integrated tool in widely used CATIA V5 and Abaqus environments. The integrated tool eliminates tedious procedures involved in manual extraction of strains using FEA models at appropriate strain gage locations. This integrated tool is a quick, inexpensive and effective technique for predicting structural strains. This work uses Abaqus-Python, CATIA-VB and Visual Basic environment to develop integrated tool for identifying location, direction and strains in the strain gages present in an aircraft structure.

Customer Papers

In the release of Abaqus 6.13-1, SIMULIA is adding a new user subroutine capability in Explicit termed VUEOS. This capability allows the user to define a hydrodynamic material model in which the material's volumetric response is determined by a user-defined equation of state (EOS). The introduction of this capability gives the user the ability define an EOS based on a constitutive relationship involving pressure, energy, and density, where the pressure may have parameter fits or empirical data. In order to validate this new user subroutine framework, the U.S. Army – ARDEC developed three user EOS’s for comparison with analytical and published data.

Customer Papers

Many auxiliary parts (e.g. the water pump, the oil pump, the alternator, and etc) in an engine are driven by the crankshaft. For this, a pulley is assembled to the crankshaft by a bolt. A bolt-loosening of the pulley can cause noise and vibration and bring engine breakdown in severe case. A finite element analysis procedure and a rig test were developed to predict a bolt-loosening of the pulley. The FE analysis results agree with the rig test results and verified with the real engine test. The parameters making worse the bolt-loosening are investigated. They are the torsional and lateral vibration of the crankshaft, the belt tension, the belt torque variation and the pulley inertia. Authors thought this procedure developed here can be applied to solve a boltloosening in other system.

Customer Papers

With the increasingly common use of advanced composite materials in the design of aerospace structures, vibroacoustic loads have become an important factor for structural design and integrity. Vibroacoustic analysis at high frequency is often performed by statistical energy analysis (SEA) using software products such as ESI’s VA One. A difficulty in performing SEA on complex aerospace structures is ensuring that the SEA subsystem (e.g., a structural panel) properly represents the actual structure. The model is often checked by comparing the response of a subsystem to that of a refined finite element (FE) mesh of the subsystem.

Customer Papers

In a free span, the inner pipe of a pipe-in-pipe system (PiP) bends substantially due to internal pressure and temperature and possibly contacts the outer pipe. The study is motivated by the need to understand how the interaction between the two pipes affects the PiP behavior at a free span during thermal expansion and how a PiP can be modeled adequately. The pipes were simulated with thick wall pipe, elbow, and shell elements. The interaction between the inner and outer pipes was simulated with multi-point constraints (MPC), tube-to-tube contact elements (ITT), and contact surfaces. Finite element (FE) model accuracy and cost effectiveness were compared in a case study.

Customer Papers

The importance of sensor location is crucial for a correct assessment of the dynamic response of structures and, if early structural damage detection is a concern, for increasing the POD-Probability of Detection of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) vibration-based methods. Also, the high cost of sensoring equipment (accelerometers, strain-gauges, fibre-optic sensors, etc...) implies the use of a minimum number of sensors that must be judiciously positioned in order to extract adequate and relevant information from the monitored structure. Critical Materials S.A. is developing algorithms for sensor positioning procedures, as an auxiliary tool for the deployment of vibration-based SHM techniques, based on Eigenmode and Eigenfrequency data retrieved from natural frequency extraction analysis procedures.

Customer Papers

Oil sands are becoming an increasingly important source of petroleum. The form of oil in these deposits is highly viscous, making conventional drilling practices unfeasible. Extraction with wells is facilitated by increasing the temperature of the oil-bearing layer, thereby reducing the viscosity of the oil and enabling it to flow under gravity [1,2]. An example of this approach is steam-assisted gravity drainage. Abaqus/Standard provides an analysis capability that allows for coupling between heat transfer, pore fluid flow, and displacement. In this Technology Brief, we demonstrate how this capability can be used to simulate the thermally assisted gravity drainage of an oil sand formation.

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