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Material Model Overview

The document discusses various material models and properties that can be defined in MSC Nastran including viscoelastic, elasto-plastic, creep, composite, and cohesive zone modeling. It also covers contact definitions such as node-to-segment and segment-to-segment contact, contact parameters, and nonlinear solution control options like NLSTEP that provide a unified load stepping scheme to define convergence criteria.

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Material Model Overview

The document discusses various material models and properties that can be defined in MSC Nastran including viscoelastic, elasto-plastic, creep, composite, and cohesive zone modeling. It also covers contact definitions such as node-to-segment and segment-to-segment contact, contact parameters, and nonlinear solution control options like NLSTEP that provide a unified load stepping scheme to define convergence criteria.

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 Material Model Overview

 Material Property Definitions


 Linear Elastic Behavior
 Linear Elastic Materials
 Viscoelastic
Viscoelasticity models rate effects in the deformation of materials. Their behavior becomes time dependent
Creep is the progression of deformation at constant load level
In the time domain two models are available:
The hereditary integral model for linear viscoelasticity and the Simo model for nonlinear viscoelasticity. The
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Simo model is an extension of the linear model to finite strain viscoelasticity and leads to similar hereditary
integrals as the linear model.
◾ The Bergstrom-Boyce (B-B) model, which is a phenomenological highly nonlinear model.

MATVE Specifies isotropic viscoelastic material properties to be used for quasi-


static or dynamic analysis in SOL 400.
MATTVE Specifies temperature-dependent visco-elastic material properties in
terms of Thermo-Rheologically Simple behavior to be used for quasi-
static or transient dynamic analysis in SOL 400.

 Elasto-plastic Behavior
 Elastoplastic Material Entries
MATEP Specifies elasto-plastic material properties to be used for large
deformation analysis.
MATTEP Specifies temperature-dependent elasto-plastic material properties to be
used for static, quasi-static, or transient dynamic analysis.
Stress/Strain Curve------------- TABLES!
 Strain Rate Dependent Yield
Power Law, Rate Power Law, Johnson Cook model, or Kumar model.

 Creep (MATVP, CREEP)

 Composite (PCOMP or PCOMPG)


 Cohesive Zone Modeling (MCOHE)
 Progressive Composite Failure
IGLUE Description
Keyword

0 No gluing
1 Activates the glue option. In the glue option, all degrees-of- freedom of
the contact nodes are tied in case of deformable-deformable contact
once the node comes in contact. The relative tangential motion of a
contact node is zero in case of deformable-rigid contact. The node will
be projected onto the contact body.
2 Activates a special glue option to insure that there is no relative
tangential and normal displacement when a node comes into contact.
An existing initial gap or overlap between the node and the contacted
body will not be removed, as the node will not be projected onto the
contacted body. To maintain an initial gap, ERROR should be set to a
value slightly larger than the physical gap.
3 Ensures full moment carrying glue when shells contact. The node will
be projected onto the contacted body.
4 Insures full moment carrying glue when shells contact. The node will
not be projected onto the contact body and an existing initial gap or
overlap between the node and the contacted body will not be removed,
as the node will not be projected onto the contacted body.
In SOLs 101 and 400, if contact is initially not true set NLGLUE on BCPARA to 1. For SOL 400 with a mixture of
glued and non-glued bodies, BCPARA,0,NLGLUE,1 must also be used

Cohesive Contact
The advantages of cohesive contact are:
◾ Provides a user controllable soft contact mechanism
◾ Reduces computational costs and improves accuracy of assembly analyses
◾ Simplifies analysis of bonded Joints: Replace detailed model with simplified model
◾ Implemented for small sliding segment to segment contact
◾ User specifies either stiffness or contact stress vs. relative displacement on contact interaction menu.

Contact table method (BCTABLE): With this method of specifying contact, it is difficult to define the contact
interactions between many bodies in the contact table without making any mistakes. Hence, a new method
(contact pairs method) was introduced
Contact pairs method: In this method, the contact pairs can be created directly and instead of specifying contact
◾

parameters for each pair, contact interaction can be defined and simply referenced for each pair. This makes it
easier to define the contact condition for a large amount of contact bodies
These types of contact can be applied between various types of bodies in various combinations. Contact bodies can be
created from:
◾ Deformable body: It is defined by element IDs or element properties
◾ Rigid body: It is defined by geometry (curves and surfaces) or 4-node patches

When creating a SOL400 analysis, under the solver control settings or in the BCPARA Nastran entry, the types of
contact detection specified with MSC Nastran are:
◾ Node-to-segment contact
It uses the paradigm of a slave node interacting with a master patch—that is, it works on a master-slave basis with
one body being defined as the master and the other as the slave
nodes of the slave body cannot penetrate the element faces of the master body.
Common problem is that for a large difference in element size
◾ Segment-to-segment
method results in easier contact detection. The master-slave concept does not exist with this method and both
bodies are checked for contact. This method adds additional points to the element face. It also checks the contact
between these point and thus allows for a larger difference in element size on the contact surface.
Small-sliding segment-to-segment: 
◾ Large-sliding segment-to-segment contact:

Contact parameters defines options for detecting and handling contact


◾ Global contact parameters: BCPARA 
◾ Contact Pairs Geometrical properties: BCONPRG
◾ Contact Pairs Physical properties: BCONPRP 
◾ Contact Body parameters: BCBDPRP

The NLSTEP bulk data entry provides a unified load stepping scheme that replaces existing options entries such
as NLPARM, TSTEPNL, NLPCI, and NLSTEP. This option can be used for statics and dynamic analyses, to
select fixed or adaptive time stepping control, and to define the convergence criteria, as well to make other
options for mechanical, thermal and coupled analysis.

The NLSTEP option has a keyword CTRLDEF that automatically sets up the entries for the time stepping
adjustment and convergence tolerance based upon how nonlinear you believe the problem is. 
NLPARM=10

PARAM,POST,-1

PARAM,LGDISP,1

NLPARM = 4

SPC = 2

LOAD = 8

DISPLACEMENT(SORT1,REAL)=ALL SPCFORCES(SORT1,REAL)=ALL

STRESS(SORT1,REAL,VONMISES,BILIN)=ALLNLPARM,10,10 ENDDATA

NLPARM 1 10 AUTO 5 25 PW NO + A + A .001 1.-7 NLPARM 2 10 AUTO 5 25 PW NO + B

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