Feihuzhao, thanks for the reply. Let me explain better my question. Lets assume my material has a relaxation time of 1000 sec, and I need to compute...

FE Guru, many thanks Best Regards Muzialis

Hi FEGuru, and thank you for your suggestions. Just for clarity, are you implying I should switch to some viscoplastic model? (you mention permanent...

Jorgen, many thanks for your advice. I am not conversant at all with USERMAT subroutines in ANSYS and, even if a 1 - D model was available, I would ...

Manfred, your help was the most appreciated. Thank you and Kindets Regards Muzialis

Manfred, many thanks for all this, I appreciate it must have taken you some time. I understand what you say about the suitability of the two methods...

Manfred, thank you for your post and the attachment. I understand what you say. We have already performed a forecast using an Arrhenius based tecniq...

Hi Jorgen, just to wrap this one up (an alternative solution was found), I wanted to answer your query about incompressibility. The base element mat...

Jorgen, thanks for your reply. I have done some trials tuning the time steps, with little luck. Regretfully I am not wawre of options to improve th...