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*POROUS FAILURE CRITERIA
Define porous material failure criteria for a *POROUS METAL PLASTICITY model.

This option is used to specify the material failure criteria in a porous metal.

Product: Abaqus/Explicit  

Type: Model data

Level: Model  

References:
There are no parameters associated with this option.

Data line to define material failure criteria: 

First (and only) line:

  1. Void volume fraction at total failure, . The default is 1.

  2. Critical void volume fraction (threshold of rapid loss of stress carrying capacity), . The default is .