Mech ANM 2019R1 WS04A-Hyper
Mech ANM 2019R1 WS04A-Hyper
Mech ANM 2019R1 WS04A-Hyper
Curve Fitting
ANSYS Mechanical Nonlinear
Materials
Release 2019 R1
Goal
‐ Use curve-fitting tool to create a hyperelastic material model from test
data.
‐ Analyze 3d tensile rubber test specimen
‐ Plot and graph results
Model Description
‐ 3D large deflection with nonlinear material (hyperelastic)
‐ Three planes of symmetry (1/8th of the actual model)
Steps to Follow:
File > Open… browse for file “WS4A-hyper.wbpz”
Save as
‐ File name: “WS4A-hyper”
‐ Save as type: Workbench Project Files (*.wbpj)
The project Schematic should look like the picture to the right.
‐ From this Schematic, you can see that Engineering (material)
Data and Geometry have already been defined (green check
marks).
‐ It remains to set up and run the FE model in Mechanical
Open the folders beneath the model branch to become familiar with the model set-up.
• Confirm the three frictionless boundary conditions.
• Confirm the displacement load of 19mm on the far end.
With the Elastomer material highlighted, insert hyperelastic material test data
‐ From the Toolbox, expand the “Hyperelastic Experimental Data” Folder
‐ Highlight “Uniaxial Test Data”, RMB>Include Property
‐ Repeat for:
– Biaxial Test Data
– Shear Test Data
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Note: a
The question mark next to
each cell indicates that no
data has been read in yet
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‐ Return to the “Table of Properties Row 9: Uniaxial Test Data” in the Engineering
Data Cell
- Highlight the asterisk * at the bottom of the Uniaxial Test Data Table and RMB>Paste to
the insert data
The Table of Properties should now display the Uniaxial Test Data in tabular form. The Chart should
display of the data in graphical form.
Repeat procedure for biaxial test data and shear test data using excel files ‘tension-eb.xls’
and ‘tension-pt.xls’ respectively.
From the Toolbox, open the Hyperelasticity Folder and highlight “Yeoh 3rd Order with RMB> Include Property.
‐ You should now see a Yeoh 3rd order cell in the Properties Dialogue box with undefined constants; hence, the
question mark.
When complete, the Engineering Data Chart will display all three modes of test data in dot-dash lines.
Superimposed on this is the predicted Yeoh behavior in solid lines for comparison.
Note: The Coefficients have been calculated, but no material model has been saved to the Engineering Data yet. This is
by design. If you are not satisfied with the resulting curve fit, you can try other functions, or perhaps suppress a less
dominate mode of loading and rerun the curve fitting routine for a better result.
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Change the Error Norm from “Normalized Error” to “Absolute Error” and run the curve fitting routine again.
‐ Recall the normalized error approach gives equal weight to all data points while the absolute error approach gives
more weight to larger strain values.
➢ This results in a slightly improved curve fit at higher strain values.
Once a successful curve fit is achieved, copy the data to the Engineering properties
‐ Highlight “Curve Fitting” RMB> ”Copy Calculated Values to Property”
– The Yeoh coefficients are now copied to the Properties Table. Notice the “D” parameters are all zero.
This is in keeping with the assumption that the material will be fully incompressible if no volumetric
strain data is read into the curve fitter.
Return to the Mechanical Session and specify Analysis Settings as shown below:
Select Vertex as shown and insert results to post process stress and strain along x direction
Add chart tool and insert elastic strain along X axis and SX results as objects for plotting stress vs strain as shown
below.
Q. Why doesn’t this curve match up exactly with the tensile test data curve?
A. The test data is engineering stress-strain, the results are post processed as true stress-strain.
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Notice the dramatic stress stiffening effects at higher strain values, a common characteristic of most
elastomers.