Fatigue crack propagation is an important consideration in evaluating the design life of engineering components, especially energy and transport industries. Despite its importance, fatigue analyses are not usually supported by commercial Finite Element (FE) codes; fact, most FE codes require addition costly plug-ins to perform growth simulations. Therefore, this paper introduces a new, freely d...

Abstract Ductile damages often happen on metal structures under large deformations. In the current paper, ductile damage criteria are discussed from microscopic mechanism to fracture models. Abaqus FEA makes easy be applied for practical problems. Therefore, paper finally presents detailed implementation of in describe and degradation, simulating failure process with higher fidelity.

A comprehensive benchmarking study has been carried out to determine the influence of mesh formulation and chip separation methods on reliability accuracy finite element modelling large diameter drilling operations. The Coupled Eulerian–Lagrangian updated-Lagrangian (with deletion) formulations available in ABAQUS/Explicit, together with re-meshing) DEFORM 3D are compared by simulating through-...

The milling of aluminum honeycomb structures represents today an important scientific and technical research topic for many industrial applications: aerospace, aeronautic, automotive, naval. difficulties encountered when this type materials are linked to the small thickness walls constituting cells ductility material structure. cellular composite requires specific rigorous tools. In present wor...

Subsea pipelines and cables placed in ice-prone regions may be at risk of iceberg damage. In particular, pipes that are not buried come direct contact with keels. Knowing the range interaction forces helps to assess types magnitudes potential Experimental studies provide most valuable data about forces, while numerical modeling give insight into configurations difficult study experimentally. Th...