Hi aliasgere,
To test if your UFIELD is working, apply a uniform vertical area load to the top of your soil field (no gravity or other loads), run the analysis, then observe how E (strain) varies through depth. See my post above on 22 Sep 13 20:05 and look at the attachment- that's what it...
Hi again,
Thanks for your help so far, it's gotten me through quite a bit of snags. So I've switched over to an Explicit formulation to make use of the wood crushing subroutine- being a dynamic analysis of a bridge footing, it turns out that explicit might be more appropriate. I was able to...
Here is my next question. Since I am modelling a concrete footing with wood piles in a soil mass, I have specified a yield criterion for the soil but I would like to specify a failure criteria for the wood as well.
The most applicable model I have found (so far) has been the Hashin damage...
Much appreciated Bartosz- this gave me the information to solve the changing elasticity through depth. I could not view the variation of elasticity with depth directly- what I did was applied a constant stress throughout a column and observed how the strain varied through the profile. I have...
Hi all, this is my first post to eng-tips. I've read all the forums and documentation on UFIELD and have scoured the web, and have so far been unable to get the UFIELD subroutine to work correctly in Abaqus/CAE. My goal is to model the elastic movement of a bridge footing using soil data taken...
