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    Adaptive meshing is a technique in ABAQUS/Explicit to periodically smooth and improve the quality of distorted meshes during large deformation simulations. This is necessary because large deformations can cause mesh distortion problems. Adaptive meshing uses the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method, which allows independent movement of material and mesh positions. It smoothly adjusts node positions while maintaining mesh topology. This helps analyze problems involving large deformations like forging or penetration through transient analysis with minimal additional setup.

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    Adaptive meshing is a technique in ABAQUS/Explicit to periodically smooth and improve the quality of distorted meshes during large deformation simulations. This is necessary because large deformations can cause mesh distortion problems. Adaptive meshing uses the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method, which allows independent movement of material and mesh positions. It smoothly adjusts node positions while maintaining mesh topology. This helps analyze problems involving large deformations like forging or penetration through transient analysis with minimal additional setup.

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    Adaptive meshing is a technique in ABAQUS/Explicit to periodically smooth and improve the quality of distorted meshes during large deformation simulations. This is necessary because large deformations can cause mesh distortion problems. Adaptive meshing uses the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method, which allows independent movement of material and mesh positions. It smoothly adjusts node positions while maintaining mesh topology. This helps analyze problems involving large deformations like forging or penetration through transient analysis with minimal additional setup.

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    Adaptive meshing is a technique in ABAQUS/Explicit to periodically smooth and improve the quality of distorted meshes during large deformation simulations. This is necessary because large deformations can cause mesh distortion problems. Adaptive meshing uses the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method, which allows independent movement of material and mesh positions. It smoothly adjusts node positions while maintaining mesh topology. This helps analyze problems involving large deformations like forging or penetration through transient analysis with minimal additional setup.

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    The key takeaways are that adaptive meshing is useful for analyzing problems undergoing large deformations and it helps maintain element quality throughout the simulation by remeshing. It can be used for both transient and steady-state problems.

    Some applications of adaptive meshing include analyzing dynamic impact, penetration, sloshing, forging, as well as modeling steady-state processes like extrusion and rolling.

    The characteristics of adaptive meshing in ABAQUS include periodically smoothing the mesh to reduce distortion, maintaining the same mesh topology by not changing the number of elements or nodes, and using the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method.

    Adaptive Meshing

    Motivation:
    In many nonlinear simulations the material in the structure or
    process undergoes very large deformations.
    These deformations distort the finite element mesh, often to
    the point where the mesh is unable to provide accurate results or
    the analysis terminates prematurely for numerical reasons.
    In such simulations it is necessary to use adaptive meshing tools
    to minimize the distortion in the mesh periodically.
    Note: Adaptive meshing is available only in ABAQUS/Explicit.

    Adaptive Meshing
    Adaptive meshing is useful in a broad range of applications:
    Can be used as a continuous adaptive meshing tool for transient
    analysis problems undergoing large deformations, such as:
    Dynamic impact

    Penetration

    Sloshing

    Forging

    Can be used as a solution technique to model steady-state


    processes, such as:
    Extrusion
    Rolling
    Can be used as a tool to analyze the transient phase in a steady-state
    process.

    Adaptive Meshing
    Adaptive meshing basics
    Adaptive remeshing is performed in ABAQUS/Explicit using
    the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method. The primary
    characteristics of the adaptive meshing capability are:
    The mesh is smoothed at regular intervals to reduce element
    distortion and to maintain good element aspect ratios.
    The same mesh topology is maintainedthe number of
    elements and nodes and their connectivity do not change.
    - It can be used to analyze Lagrangian (transient) problems and
    Eulerian (steady-state) problems.

    Adaptive Meshing

    Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method


    Lagrangian

    Nodes move exactly with material points.

    description

    It

    is

    easy

    to

    track

    free

    surfaces

    and

    to

    apply

    boundary conditions. The mesh will become distorted with high strain
    gradients.
    Eulerian

    Nodes stay fixed while material flows through the mesh.

    description

    It is more difficult to track free surfaces.


    No mesh distortion because mesh is fixed. The

    implementation current of Eulerian description is limited.


    ALE

    Mesh motion is constrained to the material motion only where

    necessary (at free boundaries), but otherwise material motion and mesh
    motion are independent.

    Adaptive Meshing
    Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method
    ALE Mesh motion is constrained to the material motion
    only
    where necessary (at free boundaries), but otherwise material
    motion and mesh motion are independent.
    Motion of mesh and material with
    various methods

    Adaptive Meshing
    ALE simulation of an axisymmetric forging problem

    Adaptive Meshing
    By using the adaptive meshing capability, a high-quality mesh can
    be maintained throughout the entire forging process.

    Nodes along the free boundary


    move with the material in the
    direction normal to the materials
    surface. They are allowed to adapt
    (adjust their position) tangent to
    the free surface.

    Interior nodes adaptively adjust in all


    directions

    ALE simulation: deformed mesh at 100% of die travel

    Adaptive Meshing
    In a transient (Lagrangiantype) problem, such as this
    forging simulation, minimal
    additional input is required
    to

    invoke

    the

    adaptive

    meshing capability.

    Adaptive

    meshing

    is

    available for all first-order,


    reduced-integration
    continuum elements.
    Other element types may
    exist in the model.

    Adaptive Meshing
    Adaptive meshing consists of two fundamental tasks:
    creating a new mesh, and
    remapping solution variables from the old mesh to the new
    mesh with a process called advection.
    Meshing
    A new mesh:
    is created at a specified frequency for each adaptive domain;
    is found by sweeping iteratively over the adaptive mesh
    domain and moving nodes to smooth the mesh; and
    can retain the initial gradation of the original mesh.

    Adaptive Meshing
    Remapping
    The methods used for advecting solution variables to the new
    mesh:
    are consistent, monotonic, and (by default) accurate to the
    second order; and
    conserve mass, momentum, and energy.

    Adaptive Meshing
    Mesh smoothing methods
    Volume smoothing
    Volume smoothing relocates a node by computing a volume
    weighted average of the element centers in the elements
    surrounding the node.
    Laplacian smoothing
    Laplacian smoothing relocates a node by calculating the average
    of the positions of each of the adjacent nodes connected by an
    element edge to the node in question.
    Equipotential smoothing
    Equipotential smoothing is a higher-order method that relocates
    a node by calculating a higher-order, weighted average of the
    positions of the node's eight nearest neighbor nodes in two
    dimensions.

    1.3.14 Axisymmetric extrusion: transient and steady-state

    Abaqus Example Problems Manual

    1.3.14 Axisymmetric extrusion: transient and steady-state

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