Did you manage to get the subroutine running when incorporating damage?
If damage has to be omitted for it to work, then I see little difference with the brittle cracking model, unless you're considering element deletion in compression. Then this might be really handy.
I'm eager to read...
I may have figured this out.
Apparently, whenever there is any error concerning SPH conversion, Abaqus may state the missing section error. If I make sure that no other error relating to these elements occurs, then it works.
Still curious to see if anyone has run into this.
Hi all,
I have multiple instances of the same part in my model. The C3D8R elements for the various instances are supposed to convert to particles (SPH) at a specific strain. However, the analysis doesn't run because of an error relating to missing sections. When I look at the automatically...