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Convergency Problems simulating a crack at a material interface with nlgeom on

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ruham

Mechanical
Oct 22, 2013
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Hi all,

I'm trying to get the j-integral of a crack at a material interface. I have a stiff linear elastic material on the one side and a hyperelastic material on the other side. I model a seam crack at the interface of these materials so I can calculate the j-integral. It works very fine if I use a linear elastic materials on both sides and toggle off nlgeom. But with nlgeom on it doesn't converge. The problem is that I have to toggle on nlgeom if I want to use a hyperelastic material model.

Does anybody know why nlgeom is causing Problems in this case?
Thanks in advance
 
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