May 15, 2023 | by DatapointLabs | views 1517
Simulations play a crucial role in engineering and material science, and their success heavily relies on the accuracy of input data. Material testing, data conversion, fitting, and formatting are essential steps in the simulation process. This conference will highlight the importance of material testing requirements that extend beyond ISO and ASTM standards to obtain reliable data for input into various common material models, such as Elastic-Plastic, Hyperelastic, and Rate Dependent models. The complexity of foam materials is shown through a case study of successful validation of polyurethane (PU) foam ball drop impact test using LAW 90. PU foams exhibit high deformation with rate dependency in compressive loading, as well as viscoelastic unloading behavior. Proper handling of input test data and critical settings in simulation setup are crucial for accurate results. The case study will showcase our streamlined approach to successful simulation of foam materials, including challenges and limitations of current material models.
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Mechanical
Foams
Hyperelastic
Rate Dependency
Altair RADIOSS
Validation
August 02, 2017 | by DatapointLabs | views 6035
The modeling of material behavior for injection molded plastics is a vital step for good simulation results. We detail the types of material data needed by various injection-molding simulation programs, factors that can affect simulation quality including test techniques and process variables such as moisture content. The case of fiber filled plastics is covered along with the extension to structural analysis applications.
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Plastics
Viscoelastic
Rate Dependency
Injection Molding
Nonlinear Material Models
Structural Analysis
Moldflow
LS-DYNA
Abaqus
Moldex3D
DIGIMAT
SIGMASOFT
Universal Molding
Simpoe-Mold
Presentations
Validation
May 10, 2017 | by Matereality | views 7338
We describe a new software component that takes into consideration the unique multi-variate nature of LS-DYNA material models. Rate-dependent models require adjustment and tuning of many material parameters to fit the rate-dependent tensile properties. Drawing upon a robust back-end data model, a graphical user interface provides drag and drop capability to allow the user to perform tasks such as model extrapolation beyond tested data, modulus change, rate dependency tuning and failure criteria adjustment while assuring self-consistency of the underlying material model. Unit system conversions are also facilitated, eliminating error and ensuring that material inputs to simulation correctly reflect the intent of the CAE analyst. The utility of the Matereality CAE modelers is illustrated with examples for LS-DYNA material models MAT_019, MAT_024 and MAT_089 LCSR.
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Mechanical
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
LS-DYNA
Papers
Presentations
Matereality
October 21, 2016 | by DatapointLabs | views 6250
Plastics exhibit non-linear viscoelastic behavior followed by a combination of deviatoric and volumetric plastic deformation until failure. Capturing these phenomena correctly in simulation presents a challenge because of limitations in commonly used material models. We follow an approach where we outline the general behavioral phenomena, then prescribe material models for handling different phases of plastics deformation. Edge cases will then be covered to complete the picture. Topics to be addressed include: Using elasto-plasticity; When to use hyperelasticity; Brittle polymers – filled plastics; Failure modes to consider; Criteria for survival; Choosing materials; Spatial non-isotropy from injection molding; Importance of residual stress; Visco-elastic and creep effects; Strain-rate effects for drop test and crash simulations; Fitting material data to FEA material models; The use of mid-stage validation as a tool to confirm the quality of simulation before use in real-life applications.
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Density
Rheology
Thermal
Mechanical
Plastics
Rubbers
Hyperelastic
Viscoelastic
Plasticity
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Injection Molding
Structural Analysis
ANSYS
Presentations
Validation
June 24, 2016 | by Massimo Nutini | views 5210
Topics covered: Damage in mineral filled polypropylene under impact conditions; damage modeling and parameter identification (prior art, LyondellBasell contributions, debate in the CAE community); experimental and numerical validation; next steps
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Mechanical
Plastics
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
Material Supplier
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Presentations
June 13, 2016 | by DatapointLabs | views 5677
Quantifying simulation accuracy before running crash simulations could be a helpful confidence building measure. This study continues our development of a mechanism to validate material models for plastics used in modeling high-speed impact. Focusing on models for isotropic materials that include options for rate dependency and failure, we explore other models commonly used for ductile plastics including MAT089 and MAT187.
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Mechanical
Plastics
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
Toys/Sporting Goods
Packaging
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
Validation
June 03, 2016 | by DatapointLabs | views 8054
This book is intended to be a companion to the NAFEMS book, "An Introduction to the Use of Material Models in FE". It informs Finite Element Analysis users of the manner and methodologies by which materials are tested in order to calibrate material models currently implemented in various FEA programs. While the authors seek first to satisfy the basic material models outlined in the companion book, they make important extensions to FEA used in currently active areas including explicit simulation.
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Mechanical
Plastics
Rubbers
Foams
Metals
Hyperelastic
Viscoelastic
Plasticity
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Aerospace and Defense
Automotive
Biomedical
Building Materials
Consumer Products
Energy and Petroleum
Material Supplier
Furniture
Industrial Goods
CAE Vendor/Supplier
Packaging
Home Appliances
Research Laboratory
High Speed Testing
Nonlinear Material Models
Structural Analysis
LS-DYNA
Abaqus
ANSYS
DIGIMAT
SOLIDWORKS
MSC.DYTRAN
MSC.MARC
MSC.NASTRAN
NX Nastran
PAM-COMFORT
PAM-CRASH
Altair RADIOSS
SIMULIA
Book Review
August 24, 2015 | by Massimo Nutini | views 4453
Optical strain measurement for the mechanical characterization of polymers, and in particular of polyolefins, is becoming a common practice to determine the parameters to be used in a finite element analysis of crash problems. This experimental technique allows measuring the strain locally on the specimen, so that it is particularly suitable when the deformation is localized, as in the case of polymers: therefore a more accurate description of the behaviour of the material is obtained. By so doing, it is possible to describe the material constitutive law in terms of the true, local strain and of the true stress. As these data are those needed by the most complete material models developed for impact calculation, it is clear that this technique is particularly suitable for coupling with the most advanced material models currently available in the F.E. codes, as for instance with Mat 187 (SAMP-1) of LS-Dyna. The local measurement of the strain can also be used for evaluating the volume strain, whose evolution with the increasing strain shows that for PP-based material the deformation is not isochoric in most the cases. The observed increase in the material volume reflects the fact that voids generate and coalesce within the material, possibly resulting in fracture. The measure of the volume strain, computed as the trace of the strain tensor, is here used for determining the damage function utilized by the damage model implemented in SAMP-1. The effective stress is here estimated as the stress which would be measured if the deformation was isochoric, and it can be assessed on the basis of the measurement of the longitudinal local strain only. Corresponding to each value of longitudinal strain, the volume strain is then used to calculate the ratio between the effective and the true stress. Adopting this procedure, the damage function is thus determined without the needs of repeated loading-unloading tests used to derive the damage parameter from the unloading slope, which is furthermore difficult to be measured. As an application, the results of the numerical reproduction of a benchmark test, consisting in a drop test on a polypropylene box, are presented and discussed
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Mechanical
Plastics
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
August 24, 2015 | by Massimo Nutini | views 4309
Glass-fiber-reinforced polypropylene (GF PP) materials are increasingly being used by customers to replace metal and engineering polymers in structural automotive applications. Like all glass-fiber reinforced thermoplastics, GF PP products can show anisotropy caused by fiber orientation that is induced by the injection process. Taking into account fiber orientation in the simulations enables designers to improve the accuracy of the analyses. This can help prevent arbitrary choices and assumptions when setting material parameters, which become mandatory when an isotropic material law is used. The method proposed in this paper takes advantage of the availability within Ls-dyna of an anisotropic material law (MAT_103), which allows simplified modeling to address critical issues. This law was not developed to address the problem discussed here.
Therefore, this paper illustrates a simplified approach. The presence of glass reinforced fibers is taken into account by running a mold-filling analysis, and then transferring the material flow orientation in to the structural simulation as a material angle. The dependence of the material failure strain on the material orientation can be also easily modeled through a user subroutine. Finally, the approach only requires simple material data based on basic tensile tests; the material law parameters are then identified through optimization techniques. Although this approach is based on some simplifying assumptions, its application is quick and can help the designer obtain more accurate results with respect to the traditional isotropic approach. A selection of validation tests is then proposed that show reliable predictions using limited additional computational effort.
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Mechanical
Plastics
Rate Dependency
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 31, 2015 | by Massimo Nutini | views 4173
Questo articolo si propone di illustrare l’importanza dell’utilizzo di metodi per la misura
delle proprietà locali del materiale per determinarne la legge di comportamento.
Vengono di seguito presentati alcuni esempi che evidenziano quanto più accurate
e realistiche siano le simulazioni numeriche di test di trazione ad alta velocità su provini
di poliolefine, quando vengano utilizzate proprietà dei materiali rilevate con misure locali,
utilizzando metodi ottici. La disponibilità di misure locali e più accurate evidenzia come sia
necessario che nei codici di calcolo commerciali vengano implementate delle leggi
di materiale più sofisticate di quelle disponibili attualmente, che sono state per lo più
originariamente sviluppate per materiali metallici, e dunque non riescono sempre a predire
correttamente il comportamento dei componenti in materiali polimerici.
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Mechanical
Plastics
Rate Dependency
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 30, 2015 | by Helmut Gese | views 3995
"In sheet-metal-forming the forming limit curve (FLC) is used for ductile sheets to predict fracture in deep drawing.
However the use of the FLC is limited to linear strain paths. The initial FLC cannot be used in a complex nonlinear
strain history of a deep drawing process or a successive stamp and crash process including a significant change in
strain rate. The CRACH software has been developed to predict the forming limit of sheets for nonlinear strain paths
[1]. It has been validated to predict instability for bilinear strain paths with static loading in the first path and
dynamic loading in the second path for mild steels [2].
As the postprocessing of strain paths from single finite elements in CRACH is not economic for industrial
applications MATFEM initiated a project to couple CRACH directly with FEM-Code LS-DYNA using a userdefined
material model. This allows a prediction of possible failure during the simulation for all elements with
respect to their complete strain history. A special strategy has been developed to include CRACH without extensive
increase in total CPU time. The developed interface to LS-DYNA allows also the implementation of other failure
criteria demanding the history of deformation like for example a tensorial fracture criterion.
In order to test the reliability of the calculated safety factor experimental tests for bilinear strain paths have been
simulated [2]. In this case the experimental and numerical investigations have been made on two-stage forming
processes (static in the 1st stage and both static/dynamic in the 2nd stage) . The static-static case should simulate a
stamping process with bilinear strain path. The static-dynamic case should simulate a successive stamp and crash
process.
The simulation of a complex deep drawing problem including areas with significantly nonlinear strain paths has
been simulated with LS-DYNA/CRACH-coupling. It can be shown that the prediction of CRACH can differ
significantely from a “standard” prediction based on the initial FLC.
The coupling of LS-DYNA and CRACH showed the potential to predict possible fracture in deep drawing and crash
loading at an early design stage and allowed to optimise geometry and material quality to significantly reduce later
problems in real components."
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Mechanical
Metals
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 30, 2015 | by Helmut Gese | views 4519
"Today the automotive industry is faced with the demand to build light fuel-efficient vehicles while
optimizing its crashworthiness and stiffness. A wide variety of new metallic and polymeric materials
have been introduced to account for these increased requirements. Numerical analysis can
significantly support this process if the analysis is really predictive. Within the numerical model a
correct characterization of the material behaviour – including elasto-viscoplastic behaviour and failure
- is substantial. The particular behaviour of each material group must be covered by the material
model.
The user material model MF GenYld+CrachFEM allows for a modular combination of
phenomenological models (yield locus, strain hardening, damage evolution, criteria for fracture
initiation) to give an adequate representation of technical materials. This material model can be linked
to LS-DYNA when using the explicit-dynamic time integration scheme.
This paper gives an overview on the material characterization of ultra high strength steels (with focus
on failure prediction), non-reinforced polymers (with focus on anisotropic hardening of polymers), and
structural foams (with focus on compressibility and stress dependent damage evolution) with respect
to crash simulation. It will be shown that a comprehensive material model - including damage and
failure behaviour - enables a predictive simulation without iterative calibration of material parameters.
A testing programme has been done for each material group in order to allow a fitting of the
parameters of the material model first. In a second step different component tests have been carried
out, which were part of a systematic procedure to validate the appropriate predictions of the crash
behaviour with LS-Dyna and user material MF_GenYld+CrachFEM for each material group."
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Mechanical
Plastics
Foams
Metals
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 30, 2015 | by Helmut Gese | views 4299
"The Crash Simulation of Magnesium Structures with Finite Element Methods demands
the use of suitable material and failure models. An associated plasticity model
describing the complex asymmetric yield behaviour in tension and compression of
Mg extrusions has been developed during the InMaK-project (Innovative Magnesium
Compound Structures for Automobile Frames) supported by the German Federal
Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Differences to the material model 124
in LS-DYNA are exposed. In order to describe the failure behaviour of Mg extrusions
under multiaxial loading in FEM crash simulation this constitutive model has been
combined with a fracture model for ductile and shear fracture. The fracture model
has been added to the user defined constitutive magnesium model in LS-DYNA. The
experimental investigations carried out on model components are compared with
numerical derived results. Experimental methods for fracture parameter evaluation
are shown and general aspects of metal failure due to fracture as well as different
modelling techniques are discussed."
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Mechanical
Metals
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 28, 2015 | by Paul Du Bois | views 4717
FAA William J Huges Technical Center (NJ) conducts a research project to simulate failure in aeroengines and fuselages, main purpose is blade-out containment studies. This involved the implementation in LS-DYNA of a tabulated generalisation of the Johnson-Cook material law with regularisation to accommodate simulation of ductile materials.
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Mechanical
Metals
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Aerospace and Defense
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Presentations
Validation
July 27, 2015 | by Paul Du Bois | views 4534
"Recently new materials were introduced to enhance different aspects of automotive safety while minimizing the
weight added to the vehicle. Such foams are no longer isotropic but typically show a preferred strong direction due
to their manufacturing process. Different stress/ strain curves are obtained from material testing in different
directions. A new material model was added to the LS-DYNA code in order to allow a correct numerical simulation
of such materials. Ease-of-use was a primary concern in the development of this user-subroutine: we required stress/
strain curves from material testing to be directly usable as input parameters for the numerical model without
conversion. The user-subroutine is implemented as
MAT_TRANSVERSELY_ANISOTROPIC_CRUSHABLE_FOAM, Mat law 142 in LS-DYNA Version 960-1106.
In this paper we summarize the background of the material law and illustrate some applications in the field of
interior head-impact. The obvious advantage of incorporating such detail in the simulation lies in the numerical
assessment of impacts that are slightly offset with respect to the foam’s primary strength direction."
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Mechanical
Foams
Rate Dependency
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 27, 2015 | by Paul Du Bois | views 4274
"Heavy trucks have large masses and only small deformation zones. Because of this, they are loaded
relatively severe in case of a crash. Under those conditions structural response is characterised not
only by plastic deformation but also by failure in terms of cracks or fracture. Hence, failure prediction is
essential for designing such parts.
The following article describes the procedure of generating material models for failure prognosis of
solid parts in the Commercial Vehicles Division at Daimler.
Sheet metal parts are mostly discretised by shell elements. In this case the state of stress is
characterized by hydrostatic pressure over von-Mises effective stress, the so-called triaxiality. For
many real-life load cases which can be modeled by thin shells this ratio is between –2/3 and –2/3.
Within this range the Gurson material model with the Tvergaard Needlemann addition leads to
sufficiently accurate results. Furthermore, the Gurson material model allows considering the effect of
element size, which amongst others is important for ductile materials.
Most often however, in the case of solid parts the state of stress is more complex, which results in a
triaxiality smaller than –1 or larger than 2/3. Gurson material models are usually validated based on
shell meshes and tensile tests with flat bar specimen. If applied to solid parts, these models tend to
underpredict failure . Thus, for solid parts the GURSON_JC material model is used.
The Johnson Cook parameters are derived from an existing Gurson material model. Afterwards the
material model is adapted to test results by modifying the load curve giving failure strain against
triaxiality. This requires tensile tests"
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Mechanical
Metals
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
Validation
July 27, 2015 | by Paul Du Bois | views 3898
"Reliable prediction of the behavior of structures made from polymers is a topic under considerable investigation in
engineering practice. Especially, if the structure is subjected to dynamic loading, constitutive models considering
the mechanical behavior properly are still not available in commercial finite element codes yet. In our paper, we
present a new constitutive law for polymers which recovers important phenomena like necking, crazing, strain rate
dependency, unloading behavior and damage. In particular, different yield surfaces in compression and tension and
strain rate dependent failure, the latter with damage induced erosion, is taken into account. All relevant parameters
are given directly in the input as load curves, i.e. time consuming parameter identification is not necessary. Moreover,
the models by von Mises and Drucker-Prager are included in the description as special cases.
With the present formulation, standard verification test can be simulated successfully: tensile and compression test,
shear test and three point bending tests."
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Mechanical
Plastics
Plasticity
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 27, 2015 | by Paul Du Bois | views 6326
"Reliable prediction of damage and failure in structural parts is a major challenge posed
in engineering mechanics. Although solid material models predicting the deformation
behaviour of a structure are increasingly available, reliable prediction of failure remains
still open.
With SAMP (a Semi-Analytical Model for Polymers), a general and flexible plasticity
model is available in LS-DYNA since version 971. Although originally developed for
plastics, the plasticity formulation in SAMP is generally applicable to materials that
exhibit permanent deformation, such as thermoplastics, crushable foam, soil and metals.
In this paper, we present a generalized damage and failure procedure that has been implemented
in SAMP and will be available in LS-DYNA soon. In particular, important
effects such as triaxiality, strain rate dependency, regularization and non-proportional
loading are considered in SAMP. All required physical material parameters are provided
in a user-friendly tabulated way. It is shown that our formalism includes many different
damage and failure models as special cases, such as the well-known formulations by
Johnson-Cook, Chaboche, Lemaitre and Gurson among others. "
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Mechanical
Plastics
Plasticity
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 22, 2015 | by Paul Du Bois | views 4611
"Simulation of rubber-like materials is usually based on hyperelasticity. If strain-rate dependency has to be
considered viscous dampers are added to the rheological model. A disadvantage of such a description is timeconsuming
parameter identification associated with the damping constants. In this paper, a tabulated formulation is
presented which allows fast generation of input data based on uniaxial static and dynamic tensile tests at different
strain rates. Unloading, i.e. forming of a hysteresis, can also be modeled easily based on a damage formulation. We
show the theoretical background and algorithmic setup of our model which has been implemented in the explicit
solver LS-DYNA [1]-[3]. Apart from purely numerical examples, the validation of a soft and a hard rubber under
loading and subsequent unloading at different strain rates is shown."
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Mechanical
Rubbers
Hyperelastic
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 22, 2015 | by Paul Du Bois | views 4464
"Reliable prediction of the behaviour of structures made from polymers is a topic
under considerable investigation in engineering practice. Especially, if the
structure is subjected to dynamic loading, constitutive models considering the
mechanical behaviour properly are still not available in commercial finite element
codes.
First, we give an overview of material laws for thermoplastics and show how the
behaviour can be characterized and approximated by using visco-elasticity and
metal plasticity, respectively. Experimental work is presented to point out
important phenomena like necking, strain rate dependency, unloading behaviour
and damage. A constitutive model including the experimental findings is derived.
In particular, different yield surfaces in compression and tension and strain rate
dependent failure, the latter with damage induced erosion, need to be taken into
account. With the present formulation, standard verification tests can be
simulated successfully. Also, an elastic damage model is used to approximate
the unloading behaviour of thermoplastics adequately."
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Mechanical
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
July 22, 2015 | by Paul Du Bois | views 4085
"During the past years polymer materials have gained enormous importance in the automotive industry. Especially
their application for interior parts to help in passenger safety load cases and their use for bumper fascias in pedestrian
safety load cases have driven the demand for much more realistic finite element simulations. For such applications
the material model 187 (i.e. MAT_SAMP-1) in LS-DYNA® has been developed.
In the present paper the authors show how the parameters for the rather general model may be adjusted to allow for
the simulation of crazing effects during plastic loading. Crazing is usually understood as inelastic deformation that
exhibits permanent volumetric deformations. Hence a material model that is intended to be applied for polymer
components that show crazing effects during the experimental study, should be capable to produce the correct volumetric
strains during the respective finite element simulation. The paper discusses the real world effect of crazing,
the ideas to capture these effect in a numerical model and exemplifies the theoretical ideas with a real world structural
component finite element model."
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Mechanical
Plastics
Rate Dependency
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
April 28, 2015 | by DatapointLabs | views 5056
There is interest in quantifying the accuracy of different material models being used in LS-DYNA today for the modeling of plastics. In our study, we characterize two ductile, yet different materials, ABS and polypropylene for rate dependent tensile properties and use the data to develop material parameters for the material models commonly used for plastics: MAT_024 and its variants, MAT_089 and MAT_187. We then perform a falling dart impact test which produces a complex multi-axial stress state and simulate this experiment using LS-DYNA. For each material model we are able to compare simulation to actual experiment thereby obtaining a measure of fidelity of the simulation to reality. In this way, we can assess the benefits of using a particular material model for plastics simulation.
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Mechanical
Plastics
Rate Dependency
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
Validation
April 28, 2015 | by Paul Du Bois | views 4117
"The simulation of rubber materials is becoming increasingly
important in automotive crashworthiness simulations.
Although highly sophisticated material laws are available in
LS-DYNA to model rubber parts, the determination of material
properties can be non-trivial and time consuming. In many
applications, the rubber component is mainly loaded uniaxially
at rather high strain rates. In this paper a simplified material
model for rubber is presented allowing for a fast generation of
input data based on uniaxial static and dynamic test data."
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Mechanical
Rubbers
Hyperelastic
Rate Dependency
Automotive
High Speed Testing
LS-DYNA
Research Papers
June 05, 2012 | by Matereality | views 3859
LS-DYNA contains a wealth of material models that allow for the simulation of transient phenomena. These models are often quite complex and difficult to calibrate. We present CAE Modeler, a generalized pre-processor software used to convert material property data into material parameters for different material models used in CAE. In this paper, CAE Modeler is used to streamline the conversion of rate dependent stress-strain data into material parameters for the MAT_024 material model. The interactive software is capable of handling all three rate dependency options of MAT_024 and outputs a data file that can be read directly into LS-DYNA. Support for other material models is envisaged.
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Rate Dependency
Nonlinear Material Models
Structural Analysis
LS-DYNA
Papers
October 14, 2005 | by Paul Du Bois | views 4040
The numerical simulation of structural parts made from plastics is becoming increasingly important nowadays. The fact that almost any structural requirement can be combined in a lightweight, durable and cost effective structure is the driving force behind its widespread application. More and more structural relevant parts are being constructed and manufactured from plastics. This on the other hand drives the demand for reliable and robust methods to design these parts and to predict their structural behaviour. the key ingredients that need to be available are verified, calibrated and validated constitutive models for any family of plastic material. This holds not only true for crashworthiness applications but for any other application field.
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Plastics
Plasticity
Rate Dependency
Yielding/Failure Analysis
Automotive
Nonlinear Material Models
LS-DYNA
April 28, 2005 | by DatapointLabs | views 4961
High strain-rate properties have many applications in the simulation of automotive crash and product drop testing.
These properties are difficult to measure. These difficulties result from inaccuracies in extensometry at high strain
rates due to extensometer slippage and background noise due to the sudden increase in stress at the start of the
test. To eliminate these inaccuracies we use an inferential technique that correlates strain to extension at low
strain rates and show that this can be extended to measure strain at higher strain rates
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Mechanical
Plastics
Rate Dependency
Aerospace and Defense
Automotive
Consumer Products
Material Supplier
Toys/Sporting Goods
Packaging
Home Appliances
High Speed Testing
Nonlinear Material Models
Structural Analysis
LS-DYNA
Abaqus
ANSYS
MSC.DYTRAN
PAM-CRASH
Research Papers
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