6.17 Periodic media analysis technique in Abaqus/Explicit

Product: Abaqus/Explicit  

Benefits: The new periodic media analysis technique in Abaqus/Explicit allows for easy and economical simulation of systems with repetitive structures that move through a process zone.

Description: Periodic media analysis is a Lagrangian technique that offers an Eulerian-like view into a moving structure. It can be used to effectively model systems that are repetitive in nature, such as manufacturing processes involving conveyor belts or continuous forming operations. The functionality takes topologically identical meshed structures (blocks) and automatically links them together to form a continuous chain. The number of meshed structures only needs to be enough to cover the process zone. Meshed structures are moved automatically from the outlet to the inlet region. This technique leads to significant analysis time speedup when compared to traditional modeling techniques that may require excessively large meshes.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Manual

Abaqus Keywords Reference Manual

Abaqus Verification Manual