Dassault official course notes on Modeling Fracture and Failure with Abaqus. Workshop notes are included.Course objectives
Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
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 growthContents:
Lecture 1 Basic Concepts of Fracture Mechanics
Lecture 2 Modeling Cracks
Lecture 3 Fracture Analysis
Workshop 1 Crack in a Three-point Bend Specimen
Workshop 2 Crack in a Helicopter Airframe Component
Lecture 4 Material Failure and Wear
Lecture 5 Element-based Cohesive Behavior
Workshop 3 Crack Growth in a Three-point Bend Specimen using Cohesive Connections (Part 1)
Workshop 4 Crack Growth in a Helicopter Airframe Component using Cohesive Elements
Lecture 6 Surface-based Cohesive Behavior
Workshop 3 Crack Growth in a Three-point Bend Specimen using Cohesive Connections (Part 2)
Lecture 7 Virtual Crack Closure Technology (VCCT)
Workshop 5 Crack Growth in a Three-point Bend Specimen using VCCT
Lecture 8 Low-cycle Fatigue
Lecture 9 Mesh-independent Fracture Modeling (XFEM)
Workshop 6 Crack Growth in a Three-point Bend Specimen using XFEM
Workshop 7 Modeling Crack Propagation in a Pressure Vessel with Abaqus using XFEM
