Modeling Fracture and Failure with Abaqus

What you will learn

• Use proper modeling techniques for capturing crack-tip singularities in fracture mechanics problems
• Use Abaqus/CAE to create meshes appropriate for fracture studies
• Calculate stress intensity factors and contour integrals around a crack tip
• Simulate material damage and failure
• Simulate crack growth using cohesive behavior, VCCT, and XFEM
• Simulate low-cycle fatigue crack growth

Topics covered

• Overview - Modeling Fracture and Failure with Abaqus10 min
• 1 - Basic Concepts of Fracture Mechanics1 hour
• 2 - Fracture Analysis of Sharp Cracks3 hour
• 3 - General Fracture Analysis2 hour
• 4 - Material Failure and Wear2 hour
• 5 - Element-based Cohesive Behavior4 hour
• 6 - Surface-based Cohesive Behavior1 hour 30 min
• 7 - Virtual Crack Closure Technique (VCCT)2 hour
• 8 - Fatigue Crack Growth1 hour
• 9 - Mesh-independent Fracture Modeling (XFEM)3 hour 30 min
• A1 - Other Fracture Mechanics Techniques-
• A2 - Focused Mesh with Keywords-

Who it is for

Simulation Analysts

Prerequisites

Introduction to Abaqus or equivalent and experience using Abaqus.