Dear Dr. Bergstrm
My name is Per Bryntheson and I work at Saab Automobile AB in Trollhttan, Sweden.
I just found the card *HYSTERESIS in the ABAQUS manual and that is exactly what I need. I also found the reference to yours and Boyce report Constitutive Modeling of the Large Strain Time-Dependent Behavior of Elastomers. I have now downloaded all the reports I have found that you have written. I also found your website polymerfem.com. I must say that it felt like winning the lottery when I found all this. The reason to my excitement is that I am working with hood and door slams (fast closings of the car closures) and I therefore need the force displacement curve for the rubber sealings at fast compressions. I do however have some questions that you perhaps would be kind enough to help me with.
I use to calculate the force displacement curve for the sealings in Abaqus/explicit using a plain strain FE-model with displacement driven compression (compressing the seal profile with a rigid body with a friction coefficient of 0.3 between them). I have now tried to implement *HYSTERESIS in my calculation but got into some difficulties. First of all I had to switch to Abaqus/standard since *HYSTERESIS only worked in standard. My big problem is now that the calculation doesnt converge. I have tried to do the calculation in Abaqus/standard without *HYSTERESIS and that works fine, but when I include that card the problem gets really hard to solve for Abaqus.
I am using a mix of CPE3 and CPE4 elements and the rubber material (EPDM 30 shore A) looks like this (my model is in [mm] and I use [N] and [MPa]):
*MATERIAL, NAME=RUBBER_30_SHORE_A
*DENSITY
0.35E-09,0.0
*HYPERELASTIC,MOONEY-RIVLIN
0.122,0.031,6.55e-2
*HYSTERESIS
1.6,0.556,4.0,-1.0
I got the *HYSTERESIS values from the ABAQUS Analysis Users Manual ver 6.5 where they with a reference to you gave the typical values: S=1.6, A=5/((SQRT of 3)^m) = 5/(1.732^4)=0.556, m=4.0 and C=-1.0.
Do you have any ideas on hove I should get convergence? Have I misunderstood the units? should I perhaps try to change any of the *HYSTERESIS values? Should I perhaps make an ever finer element mesh, the elements are already rather small. Do you think that I should try only using triangular mesh (CPE3 elements).
I am grateful to any help from you.
Best regards
Per Bryntheson
By the way, are you perhaps in any way related to Sweden. It does sound like it on your name Jrgen Bergstrm.