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LOACQ

Description

Constitutive law for loading (thin) 3D shell elements.

The model

This law is used for mechanical analysis of shells, loaded by uniform pressure and shear, normal and tangential to the mid-line $\xi$ at any moment, or in the global axes.

Loading can be driven either by force multiplicator (MULTF) or displacement multiplicator (MULTD).

Files

Prepro: LLOACQ.F
Lagamine: CLCOQ4.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 99
COMMENT Any comment (up to 60 characters) that will be reproduced on the output listing

Integer parameters

Line 1 (I5)
IDIRC Index of the loading direction
= 0 : Local direction
= 1 : Global direction

Real parameters

Line 1 (3G10.0)
PRESSF Pressure $p_o$ (which will be multiplied by MULTF)
TAURF Shear $\tau_r$ (which will be multiplied by MULTF)
TAUSF Shear $\tau_s$ (which will be multiplied by MULTF)
Line 1 (3G10.0)
PRESS Pressure $p_o$ (which will be multiplied by MULTD)
TAURD Shear $\tau_r$ (which will be multiplied by MULTD)
TAUSD Shear $\tau_s$ (which will be multiplied by MULTD)

Stresses

Number of stresses

3

Meaning

SIG(1) = p : Pressure (= $p_o$ * MULT)
> 0 according with local coordinates of shell
SIG(2) = $\tau$ : Shear (= $\tau_r$ * MULT)
> 0 according with local coordinates of shell
SIG(3) = $\tau$ : Shear (= $\tau_s$ * MULT)
> 0 according with local coordinates of shell

State variables

Number of state variables

1

List of state variables

Q(1) Without any meaning