Thanks for your help. It helped a bit, but not to the degree of softening that I was looking for. I implemented the Ductile Criterion damage initiation to soften it and found that was a bit more robust than my "manual" softening. Still, had to settle with a "slow" damage.
You can always put everything inside a loop, an example for three depths:
depths = [d1,d2,d3]
for n in range(3):
depth = depths[n]
jobname = 'job-' + str(n+1)
<Your code, replacing the appropriate parameters>
I did (n+1) because "n" will start at 0.
Hey everyone,
I am modeling an isotropic material with an elastic-plastic behavior. I am applying a prescribed displacement. I want to soften the material but the *STATIC analysis never converges. I tried *Static, Riks but it never reaches the prescribed displacement. As soon as the material...
