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Simulation tools can play a significant role in meeting design challenges within the mining and resources sector. Potential applications range from the analysis of design and placing for individual key infrastructure potentially affected by surface or underground deformation, to the review of safety and stability of all excavations in a single model. The success of the analysis is linked to the ability to replicate realistic behavior in complex three-dimensional problems.

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Embankments constructed on soft soils undergo large deformations and lateral movements which results in long construction delays and premature failure. Several researches in the past have shown that Geosynthetic Reinforced Piled Embankment Systems (GRPES) is an attractive solution for such problems. This system consists of horizontal layers of geosynthetic reinforcement, soil embankment and piles. In this paper, finite element based numerical study has been carried out using ABAQUS to study the interactions between friction pile-soil-geosynthetics during and after construction of the embankment. The influences of various parameters like the geosynthetic stiffness, pile height and embankment height on the performance of GRPES has been studied in this work. The paper discusses the model details and the various results obtained along with design implications for practitioners.

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This paper proposes a new approach for modeling connection makeup, using a material strain-rate dependant model. Abaqus analysis examples are presented to demonstrate the use of the proposed modeling approach. The impacts of strain rate on connection structural integrity and sealing capacity are discussed. The paper demonstrates that the proposed modeling approach provides a more accurate correlation to field and test data and presents a more realistic representation of connection behavior at makeup and under subsequent load conditions.

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One of the capabilities of Isight is to create processes to involve and control external programmes. Therefore it’s possible to embed several commercial and in-house tools and combine them with each other. In this way processes can be generated which contain different disciplines and working focuses. They can support the search for designs which solve given issues, saving time and finding better designs (compared to manual iteration between disciplines).

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The accurate modeling of offshore flexible risers behaviour remains a great challenge because of their complex internal structure, the variable nature of the loads along the pipe, and the interactions with structures used to limit the pipe curvature. Technip and IFP Energies Nouvelles have been codeveloping for many years models dedicated to stresses calculation in the armour wires, to assess the flexible lifetime. These models must account for a large number of potential inner contacts as well as external contacts. This paper presents implicit and explicit Abaqus simulations of a cyclic bending test of a flexible pipe with internal pressure and tension. The simulation results are successfully compared to experimental data.

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An FE study of the behaviour of concrete blocks compressed against rubber sheets was conducted. The results were compared to experimental tests of the same assembly reported in the literature. It was found that tensile stresses developed within the concrete due to non-uniform compression of the rubber and were likely to have been the cause of failure of the concrete except where the rubber sheet was very thin or absent. The effect disappeared if contact between the rubber and concrete was frictionless.

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In this paper, two issues are addressed. First, for given material (fixed Young’s modulus), what is the transition point (D/t) for plastic (yield strength) collapse to elastic collapse? How does the transition point change with the yield strength? A pipe with a thin section of length L is supported by thicker sections at both ends. It is known that the thin section with a large D/t, the shorter the L, the higher the collapse pressure. The question is how short (L/D) must the pipe be to prevent elastic collapse, or in other words, for a given D/t, what is the transition point (L/D)? The transition curves obtained provide useful guidelines for tubular product design and testing when collapse is a concern.

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The shot peen forming is a cold work deformation process consisting of treating the surface of a work piece with a stream of round shots (usually made of steel) with high enough energy to deform plastically the surface. This plastic deformation causes compressive residual stresses under the surface that are able to create a curvature on the component. This process is increasingly being used to create smooth curvatures in large pieces, for example, in the manufacturing of aerodynamic panels in the aeronautic sector.

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The radiation noise simulation of a rolling tire is presented. Here we consider only radiation noise caused by structural vibration excited by tread pattern. The simulation consists of three parts, i.e. quasi-static rolling simulation using a tire model having tread pattern, frequency response analysis of a rolling tire model having longitudinal grooves and acoustic simulation surrounding the second tire model. Each part is conducted sequentially using Abaqus/Standard.

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XFEM, Extended Finite Element Method, can accurately predict fracture failure. The Army would like to use XFEM in many areas to prevent fracture failures as part of the design process. Problems of interest include drop tests, concrete penetration, gun launch, recoil, and interaction of gun supports with ground. These problems have loads that are dynamic and multi-directional. The geometry often requires millions of degrees of freedom for accuracy. Explicit codes are generally used to capture the complicated system response as a function of time.

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Abaqus has been used for many years in eni as the main stress/strain simulator for studying the geomechanical behaviour of reservoirs both at field and well scale. In the work presented in this paper, the new capabilities developed in Abaqus/CAE are applied with reference to a field scale geomechanical study performed on a realistic test case. As shown in the example application, the capabilities developed in Abaqus/CAE are particularly suitable for reservoir geomechanical simulations, and allow one to perform accurate analyses that overcome the limitations of the previous workflow and simultaneously provide significant automation.

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This paper describes the development of knitted fabric models for finite element analysis to simulate the large deformation behavior of garments and their clothing pressure distribution on the human body. In this study, for the modeling of cloth materials, two analytical approaches are investigated: a rebar layer model combined with isotropic hyperelastic shell elements and an anisotropic hyperelastic material model with a polyconvex strain energy function defined by the UMAT user-subroutine.

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