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[Korrenn Broaddus]

I'm running a compression on a concrete cube test to failure. I am using the explicit material Concrete-L without changing any of its default properties. I have added the Crack Softening Failure with a fracture energy of 2.5 mj/mm2.

I have a 150 mm cube of concrete in uniaxial compression along the y axis. I inforce a displacement at the top of the cube of -1mm wich should result in an average strain of -6.67e-3, however, the maximum strain given by explicit dynamics is -2.5e-3 despite showing a displacement of 1.0197 mm at the top of the cube.

My time step is 5e-4s I have no errosion controls on, my maximum energy error is 0.1.

Also, How do i see the damage output, my solution does not allow me to input a damage solution into the tree. 

[Chris Quan]

You can click on Solution in Tree first and then click on Worksheet from the top toolbar to show the list of user-defined variables.

From the list, you can right click on Effective Plastic Strain (EFF_PL_STN) and Principal Strain (P_STRAIN_3) to plot the results.

You can also click on Damage to plot the contour plot of material damage.

 

[Korrenn Broaddus]

Thank you so much.

[Korrenn Broaddus]

This is the same model. I am getting a realy weird deformation at the top. How can I fix this?