Modeling Fracture and Failure with Abaqus

Course 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 seminar provides a detailed discussion of these capabilities. 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 growth

Who Should Attend: Simulation Analysts