Product: Abaqus/Standard
“Anisotropic hyperelastic behavior,” Section 18.5.3 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual
“UANISOHYPER_INV and VUANISOHYPER_INV,” Section 4.1.13 of the Abaqus Verification Manual

User subroutine UANISOHYPER_STRAIN:
can be used to define the strain energy potential of anisotropic hyperelastic materials as a function of the components of the Green strain tensor;
is called at all material calculation points of elements for which the material definition contains user-defined anisotropic hyperelastic behavior with a Green strain-based formulation (“Anisotropic hyperelastic behavior,” Section 18.5.3 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual);
can include material behavior dependent on field variables or state variables; and
requires that the values of the derivatives of the strain energy density function of the anisotropic hyperelastic material be defined with respect to the components of the modified Green strain tensor.

In the array of modified Green strain, EBAR, direct components are stored first, followed by shear components. There are NDI direct and NSHR tensor shear components. The order of the components is defined in “Conventions,” Section 1.2.2 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual. Since the number of active stress and strain components varies between element types, the routine must be coded to provide for all element types with which it will be used.

The array of first derivatives of the strain energy function, DU1, contains NTENS+1 components, with NTENS=NDI+NSHR. The first NTENS components correspond to the derivatives with respect to each component of the modified Green strain,
. The last component contains the derivative with respect to the volume ratio,
.
The array of second derivatives of the strain energy function, DU2, contains (NTENS+1)*(NTENS+2)/2 components. These components are ordered using the following triangular storage scheme:
Finally, the array of third derivatives of the strain energy function, DU3, also contains (NTENS+1)*(NTENS+2)/2 components, each representing the derivative with respect to
of the corresponding component of DU2. It follows the same triangular storage scheme as DU2.

There are several special considerations that need to be noted.
When UANISOHYPER_STRAIN is used to define the material response of shell elements that calculate transverse shear energy, Abaqus/Standard cannot calculate a default value for the transverse shear stiffness of the element. Hence, you must define the element's transverse shear stiffness. See “Shell section behavior,” Section 25.6.4 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual, for guidelines on choosing this stiffness.
When UANISOHYPER_STRAIN is used to define the material response of elements with hourglassing modes, you must define the hourglass stiffness for hourglass control based on the total stiffness approach. The hourglass stiffness is not required for enhanced hourglass control, but you can define a scaling factor for the stiffness associated with the drill degree of freedom (rotation about the surface normal). See “Section controls,” Section 23.1.4 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual.

SUBROUTINE UANISOHYPER_STRAIN (EBAR, AJ, UA, DU1, DU2, DU3,
1 TEMP, NOEL, CMNAME, INCMPFLAG, IHYBFLAG, NDI, NSHR, NTENS,
2 NUMSTATEV, STATEV, NUMFIELDV, FIELDV, FIELDVINC,
3 NUMPROPS, PROPS)
C
INCLUDE 'ABA_PARAM.INC'
C
CHARACTER*80 CMNAME
C
DIMENSION EBAR(NTENS), UA(2), DU1(NTENS+1),
2 DU2((NTENS+1)*(NTENS+2)/2),
3 DU3((NTENS+1)*(NTENS+2)/2),
4 STATEV(NUMSTATEV), FIELDV(NUMFIELDV),
5 FIELDVINC(NUMFIELDV), PROPS(NUMPROPS)
user coding to define UA,DU1,DU2,DU3,STATEV
RETURN
END
UA(1)
U, strain energy density function. For a compressible material at least one derivative involving J should be nonzero. For an incompressible material all derivatives involving J are ignored.
UA(2)
, the deviatoric part of the strain energy density of the primary material response. This quantity is needed only if the current material definition also includes Mullins effect (see “Mullins effect in rubberlike materials,” Section 18.6.1 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual).
DU1(NTENS+1)
Derivatives of strain energy potential with respect to the components of the modified Green strain tensor,
, and with respect to the volume ratio,
.
DU2((NTENS+1)*(NTENS+2)/2)
Second derivatives of strain energy potential with respect to the components of the modified Green strain tensor and the volume ratio (using triangular storage, as mentioned earlier).
DU3((NTENS+1)*(NTENS+2)/2)
Derivatives with respect to J of the second derivatives of the strain energy potential (using triangular storage, as mentioned earlier). This quantity is needed only for compressible materials with a hybrid formulation (when INCMPFLAG = 0 and IHYBFLAG = 1).
STATEV
Array containing the user-defined solution-dependent state variables at this point. These are supplied as values at the start of the increment or as values updated by other user subroutines (see “User subroutines: overview,” Section 14.2.1 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual) and must be returned as values at the end of the increment.

TEMP
Current temperature at this point.
NOEL
Element number.
CMNAME
User-specified material name, left justified.
NDI
Number of direct stress components at this point.
NSHR
Number of shear components at this point.
NTENS
Size of the stress or strain component array (NDI + NSHR).
INCMPFLAG
Incompressibility flag defined to be 1 if the material is specified as incompressible or 0 if the material is specified as compressible.
IHYBFLAG
Hybrid formulation flag defined to be 1 for hybrid elements; 0 otherwise.
NUMSTATEV
User-defined number of solution-dependent state variables associated with this material (see “Allocating space” in “User subroutines: overview,” Section 14.2.1 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Manual).
NUMFIELDV
Number of field variables.
FIELDV
Array of interpolated values of predefined field variables at this material point at the end of the increment based on the values read in at the nodes (initial values at the beginning of the analysis and current values during the analysis).
FIELDVINC
Array of increments of predefined field variables at this material point for this increment, including any values updated by user subroutine USDFLD.
NUMPROPS
Number of material properties entered for this user-defined hyperelastic material.
PROPS
Array of material properties entered for this user-defined hyperelastic material.
EBAR(NTENS)
Modified Green strain tensor,
, at the material point at the end of the increment.
AJ
J, determinant of deformation gradient (volume ratio) at the end of the increment.

As a simple example of the coding of user subroutine UANISOHYPER_STRAIN, consider the generalization to anisotropic hyperelasticity of the Saint-Venant Kirchhoff model. The strain energy function of the Saint-Venant Kirchhoff model can be expressed as a quadratic function of the Green strain tensor,
, as
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However, user subroutine UANISOHYPER_STRAIN must return the derivatives of the strain energy function with respect to the modified Green strain tensor,
, and the volume ratio, J, which can be accomplished easily using the following relationship between
,
, and
:
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In this example an auxiliary function is used to facilitate indexing into a fourth-order symmetric tensor. The user subroutine would be coded as follows:
subroutine uanisohyper_strain (
* ebar, aj, ua, du1, du2, du3, temp, noel, cmname,
* incmpFlag, ihybFlag, ndi, nshr, ntens,
* numStatev, statev, numFieldv, fieldv, fieldvInc,
* numProps, props)
c
include 'aba_param.inc'
c
dimension ebar(ntens), ua(2), du1(ntens+1)
dimension du2((ntens+1)*(ntens+2)/2)
dimension du3((ntens+1)*(ntens+2)/2)
dimension statev(numStatev), fieldv(numFieldv)
dimension fieldvInc(numFieldv), props(numProps)
c
character*80 cmname
c
parameter ( half = 0.5d0,
$ one = 1.d0,
$ two = 2.d0,
$ third = 1.d0/3.d0,
$ twothds = 2.d0/3.d0,
$ four = 4.d0 )
*
* Orthotropic Saint-Venant Kirchhoff strain energy function (3D)
*
D1111=props(1)
D1122=props(2)
D2222=props(3)
D1133=props(4)
D2233=props(5)
D3333=props(6)
D1212=props(7)
D1313=props(8)
D2323=props(9)
*
d2UdE11dE11 = D1111
d2UdE11dE22 = D1122
d2UdE11dE33 = D1133
*
d2UdE22dE11 = d2UdE11dE22
d2UdE22dE22 = D2222
d2UdE22dE33 = D2233
*
d2UdE33dE11 = d2UdE11dE33
d2UdE33dE22 = d2UdE22dE33
d2UdE33dE33 = D3333
*
d2UdE12dE12 = D1212
*
d2UdE13dE13 = D1313
*
d2UdE23dE23 = D2323
*
xpow = exp ( log(aj) * twothds )
detuInv = one / aj
*
E11 = xpow * ebar(1) + half * ( xpow - one )
E22 = xpow * ebar(2) + half * ( xpow - one )
E33 = xpow * ebar(3) + half * ( xpow - one )
E12 = xpow * ebar(4)
E13 = xpow * ebar(5)
E23 = xpow * ebar(6)
*
term1 = twothds * xpow * detuInv
dE11Dj = term1 * ( E11 + half )
dE22Dj = term1 * ( E22 + half )
dE33Dj = term1 * ( E33 + half )
dE12Dj = term1 * E12
dE13Dj = term1 * E13
dE23Dj = term1 * E23
term2 = - third * detuInv
d2E11DjDj = term2 * dE11Dj
d2E22DjDj = term2 * dE22Dj
d2E33DjDj = term2 * dE33Dj
d2E12DjDj = term2 * dE12Dj
d2E13DjDj = term2 * dE13Dj
d2E23DjDj = term2 * dE23Dj
*
dUdE11 = d2UdE11dE11 * E11
* + d2UdE11dE22 * E22
* + d2UdE11dE33 * E33
dUdE22 = d2UdE22dE11 * E11
* + d2UdE22dE22 * E22
* + d2UdE22dE33 * E33
dUdE33 = d2UdE33dE11 * E11
* + d2UdE33dE22 * E22
* + d2UdE33dE33 * E33
dUdE12 = two * d2UdE12dE12 * E12
dUdE13 = two * d2UdE13dE13 * E13
dUdE23 = two * d2UdE23dE23 * E23
*
U = half * ( E11*dUdE11 + E22*dUdE22 + E33*dUdE33 )
* + E12*dUdE12 + E13*dUdE13 + E23*dUdE23
*
ua(2) = U
ua(1) = ua(2)
*
du1(1) = xpow * dUdE11
du1(2) = xpow * dUdE22
du1(3) = xpow * dUdE33
du1(4) = xpow * dUdE12
du1(5) = xpow * dUdE13
du1(6) = xpow * dUdE23
du1(7) = dUdE11*dE11Dj + dUdE22*dE22Dj + dUdE33*dE33Dj
* + two * ( dUdE12*dE12Dj
* +dUdE13*dE13Dj
* +dUdE23*dE23Dj )
*
xpow2 = xpow * xpow
*
du2(indx(1,1)) = xpow2 * d2UdE11dE11
du2(indx(1,2)) = xpow2 * d2UdE11dE22
du2(indx(2,2)) = xpow2 * d2UdE22dE22
du2(indx(1,3)) = xpow2 * d2UdE11dE33
du2(indx(2,3)) = xpow2 * d2UdE22dE33
du2(indx(3,3)) = xpow2 * d2UdE33dE33
du2(indx(1,4)) = zero
du2(indx(2,4)) = zero
du2(indx(3,4)) = zero
du2(indx(4,4)) = xpow2 * d2UdE12dE12
du2(indx(1,5)) = zero
du2(indx(2,5)) = zero
du2(indx(3,5)) = zero
du2(indx(4,5)) = zero
du2(indx(5,5)) = xpow2 * d2UdE13dE13
du2(indx(1,6)) = zero
du2(indx(2,6)) = zero
du2(indx(3,6)) = zero
du2(indx(4,6)) = zero
du2(indx(5,6)) = zero
du2(indx(6,6)) = xpow2 * d2UdE23dE23
*
du2(indx(1,7)) = term1 * dUdE11 + xpow * (
* d2UdE11dE11 * dE11Dj
* + d2UdE11dE22 * dE22Dj
* + d2UdE11dE33 * dE33Dj )
du2(indx(2,7)) = term1 * dUdE22 + xpow * (
* d2UdE22dE11 * dE11Dj
* + d2UdE22dE22 * dE22Dj
* + d2UdE22dE33 * dE33Dj )
du2(indx(3,7)) = term1 * dUdE33 + xpow * (
* + d2UdE33dE11 * dE11Dj
* + d2UdE33dE22 * dE22Dj
* + d2UdE33dE33 * dE33Dj )
du2(indx(4,7)) = term1 * dUdE12
* + xpow * two * d2UdE12dE12 * dE12Dj
du2(indx(5,7)) = term1 * dUdE13
* + xpow * two * d2UdE13dE13 * dE23Dj
du2(indx(6,7)) = term1 * dUdE23
* + xpow * two * d2UdE23dE23 * dE13Dj
du2(indx(7,7))= dUdE11*d2E11DjDj
* +dUdE22*d2E22DjDj
* +dUdE22*d2E22DjDj
* + two*( dUdE12*d2E12DjDj
* +dUdE13*d2E13DjDj
* +dUdE23*d2E23DjDj)
* + d2UdE11dE11 * dE11Dj * dE11Dj
* + d2UdE22dE22 * dE22Dj * dE22Dj
* + d2UdE33dE33 * dE33Dj * dE33Dj
* + two * ( d2UdE11dE22 * dE11Dj * dE22Dj
* +d2UdE11dE33 * dE11Dj * dE33Dj
* +d2UdE22dE33 * dE22Dj * dE33Dj )
* + four * ( d2UdE12dE12 * dE12Dj * dE12Dj
* d2UdE13dE13 * dE13Dj * dE13Dj
* d2UdE23dE23 * dE23Dj * dE23Dj )
*
return
end
*
* Maps index from Square to Triangular storage
* of symmetric matrix
*
integer function indx( i, j )
*
include 'aba_param.inc'
*
ii = min(i,j)
jj = max(i,j)
*
indx = ii + jj*(jj-1)/2
*
return
end