Evaluating Viscoelastic Material in Abaqus

Hi,

I am using a viscoelastic material model in abaqus. I have used the Evaluate option in Abaqus to view the predicted behaviour of the material. Abaqus manual says that the Evaluate option prompts Abaqus/CAE to perform one or more standard tests using an existing material and information on standard tests can be found in Secion 18.7 of Analysis Users Manual.

But I have not been able to find what tests abaqus performs on the material. I would really appreciate it if anyone can give some details.

Regards

Aamir

What Abaqus does is to run a simple one element simulation in uniaxial, biaxial, or other loading modes that you have specified. Then it prints the results on the screen.

-Jorgen