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LLIEN

Description

Penalty law for shell/solids link element LIEN3

The model

This law is only used for mechanical analysis of shell models, using shell elements linked to solid elements with the link element LIEN3.

Files

Prepro: LLIEN.F

Availability

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

Input file

Parameters defining the type of constitutive law

Line 1 (2I5, 60A1)
ILLaw number
ITYPE = 33
COMMENT Any comment (up to 60 characters) that will be reproduced on the output listing

Integer parameters

None

Real parameters

Line 1 (1G10.0)
RIGK Penalty coefficient $K$ (link-spring stiffness)

Stresses

Number of stresses

1

Meaning

SIG(1) = Mean elongation of the different springs used in LIEN3 link element

\[ = \frac{1}{N+1} \sum_{k=0}^N \sqrt{\Delta X_k^2 + \Delta Y_k^2 + \Delta Z_k^2} \]

State variables

Number of state variables

3

List of state variables

Q(1) $n_1$
Q(2) $n_2$ director vector components.
Q(3) $n_3$
laws/llien.txt · Last modified: 2020/08/25 15:46 (external edit)