Dear all,
I am dealing with a problem where the specimen is subjected to a temperature time curve with a distinct heating and cooling phase. However, due to thermal inertia, the elements go into cooling at different times. Since I want to use different material properties for the cooling phase, I need to check whether the AVERAGED TEMPERATURE INCREMENT of all nodes is negative and hence assign a field variable corresponding to the cooling phase material properties. I tried using UFIELD as it provides DTEMP(incremental temp difference) as an argument. However, I am not very clear on how to extend it to all nodes of the element to obtain an averaged temperature increment. Also, is there any alternate method that I can use to address my problem.
Thanking you in advance!
I am dealing with a problem where the specimen is subjected to a temperature time curve with a distinct heating and cooling phase. However, due to thermal inertia, the elements go into cooling at different times. Since I want to use different material properties for the cooling phase, I need to check whether the AVERAGED TEMPERATURE INCREMENT of all nodes is negative and hence assign a field variable corresponding to the cooling phase material properties. I tried using UFIELD as it provides DTEMP(incremental temp difference) as an argument. However, I am not very clear on how to extend it to all nodes of the element to obtain an averaged temperature increment. Also, is there any alternate method that I can use to address my problem.
Thanking you in advance!