Modeling Fracture and Failure with Abaqus
Course Objective
Description: Fracture and failure modeling allows for product designs that maximize the safe operating life of structural components. Abaqus offers many capabilities that enable fracture and failure modeling. This course provides a detailed discussion of these capabilities.
Objectives: Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
- Use proper modeling techniques to capture cracktip singularities in fracture mechanics problems
- Use proper modeling techniques for finite-strain (nonlinear) 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
The course is divided into lectures and workshops.
The course’s workshops are integral to the training. They are designed to reinforce concepts presented during the lectures. They are intended to provide users with the experience of running and troubleshooting actual Abaqus analyses.
Who should attend: This course is recommended for simulation analysts who will perform fracture and failure studies.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Abaqus or equivalent and experience using Abaqus.
