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ELATH

Description

Elastic constitutive law with thermal effects for solid elements at variable temperature.

The model

This law is used for a coupled thermo-mechanical analysis of elastic solids undergoing large strains.

Files

Prepro: LELATH.F
Lagamine:

Availability

Plane stress state YES
Plane strain state YES
Axisymmetric state YES
3D state NO
Generalized plane state YES

Input file

Parameters defining the type of constitutive law

Line 1 (2I5, 60A1)
ILLaw number
ITYPE 200
COMMENT Any comment (up to 60 characters) that will be reproduced on the output listing

Integer parameters

Line 1 (2I5)
NTEMP number of temperatures at which material data are given
IENTH = 1 to use the enthalpy formulation of the heat problem
= 0 to use the classical formulation of the heat problem

Real parameters

Repeat NTEMP times the definition of those parameters.

Line 1 (4G10.0)
T Temperature
E YOUNG's elastic modulus at temperature T
ANU POISSON's ratio at temperature T
ALPHA thermal expansion coefficient at temperature T

Note that these values are tangent values (and not secant values).

Line 2 (1G10.0)
RHO Specific mass (used to take into account self-weight but only if the initial specific mass is constant)

Stresses

Number of stresses

6 for 3D state
4 for the other cases

Meaning

The stresses are the components of CAUCHY stress tensor in global (X,Y,Z) coordinates.
For the 3-D state:

SIG(1)$\sigma_{xx}$
SIG(2)$\sigma_{yy}$
SIG(3)$\sigma_{zz}$
SIG(4)$\sigma_{xy}$
SIG(5)$\sigma_{xz}$
SIG(6)$\sigma_{yz}$

For the other cases:

SIG(1)$\sigma_{xx}$
SIG(2)$\sigma_{yy}$
SIG(3)$\sigma_{xy}$
SIG(4)$\sigma_{zz}$

State variables

Number of state variables

1

List of state variables

Q(1)Element thickness (t) in plane stress state
= 1 in plane strain state
Circumferential strain rate ($\dot{\varepsilon}_{\theta}$) in axisymmetric state
= 0 in 3-D state
element thickness (t) in generalized plane state