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University of Alberta ANSYS Tutorials - www.mece.ualberta.ca/tutorials/ansys/CL/CIT/NonLinearMat/Prin...

NonLinear Materials
Introduction
This tutorial was completed using ANSYS 7.0 The purpose of the tutorial is to describe how to include material
nonlinearities in an ANSYS model. For instance, the case when a large force is applied resulting in a stresses
greater than yield strength. In such a case, a multilinear stress-strain relationship can be included which follows
the stress-strain curve of the material being used. This will allow ANSYS to more accurately model the plastic
deformation of the material.

For this analysis, a simple tension speciment 100 mm X 5 mm X 5 mm is constrained at the bottom and has a
load pulling on the top. This specimen is made out of a experimental substance called "WhoKilledKenium".
The stress-strain curve for the substance is shown above. Note the linear section up to approximately 225 MPa
where the Young's Modulus is constant (75 GPa). The material then begins to yield and the relationship
becomes plastic and nonlinear.

ANSYS Command Listing


finish
/clear
/prep7
k,1,0,0
k,2,0,100
l,1,2

! Enter Preprocessor
! Keypoints

ET,1,LINK1
R,1,25

! Element type
! Area of 25

! Line connecting keypoints

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MP,EX,1,75000
MP,PRXY,1,0.3

! Young's modulus
! Poisson's ratio

TB,MELA,1,1,12,

! Create a table of 12 data points


! to map the stress-strain curve

TBPT,,.001,75
TBPT,,.002,150
TBPT,,.003,225
TBPT,,.004,240
TBPT,,.005,250
TBPT,,.025,300
TBPT,,.06,355
TBPT,,.1,390
TBPT,,.15,420
TBPT,,.2,435
TBPT,,.25,449
TBPT,,.275,450

! Data points

ESIZE,5
LMESH,all

! Element size 5
! Line mesh all lines

FINISH
/SOLU

! Enter solution phase

NLGEOM,ON
NSUBST,20,1000,1
OUTRES,ALL,ALL
AUTOTS,ON
LNSRCH,ON
NEQIT,1000

!
!
!
!
!
!

ANTYPE,0
DK,1,all
FK,2,FY,10000

! Static analysis
! Constrain keypoint 1
! Load on keypoint 2

Nonlinear geometry on
20 load steps
Output data for all load steps
Auto time-search on
Line search on
1000 iteration maximum

SOLVE
FINISH
/POST1
/ESHAPE,1
PLNSOL,U,Y,0,1

! Enter post processor


! Show element shape
! Plot deflection contour

FINISH
/POST26
RFORCE,2,1,F,Y
NSOL,3,2,U,Y
XVAR,2
PLVAR,3
/AXLAB,Y,DEFLECTION
/AXLAB,X,LOAD
/REPLOT

!
!
!
!

Enter time history


Reads force data in variable 2
Reads y-deflection data into var 3
Make variable 2 the x-axis

! Changes y label
! Changes X label

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