Workshop 4

Plasticity and Failure in an Impact

Analysis 14.5 Release

ANSYS LS-DYNA
in Mechanical APDL
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• This workshop illustrates defining a strain rate dependent plasticity model for
an aluminum plate, which is impacted by a ceramic bar. A failure strain is also
specified for the plate. As elements exceed the failure strain, they are removed
from the analysis. As the outer elements are deleted, the eroding surface-to-
surface contact allows the target surface to be transferred to the underlying
elements. The required input file is barplate.inp
• Step-by-step instructions are shown on the following slides. Your instructor will
give those details particular to your site.
• barplate.inp is fully commented. A /EOF command stops the input stream
after the majority of the model is created, allowing you to complete the exercise
yourself. The GUI generated commands appear after the /EOF command, so
you can compare them to your .LOG file, if you experience any problems.

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• Start ANSYS/Multiphysics/LS-DYNA in the GUI mode

• Read in the input file “ barplate.inp ”

Utility Menu > File > Read input from … > barplate.inp > OK
OR issue:
/input, barplate.inp

• SOLID164 elements used for both parts.

• Aluminum plate fixed along perimeter.

• Ceramic bar has initial downward velocity.

• Eroding surface-to-surface contact defined.

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• Define Plastic Kinematic material model for the aluminum plate

Preprocessor > Material Props > Material Models …
• Then highlight “Material Model Number 2” and expand “LS-DYNA”

• The reason that “Material Model Number 1” has a folder shown is

that it has already been populated with material data (linear elastic
isotropic) for the ceramic bar. “Material Model Number 2” is not
associated with a material model yet, so it is shown with just the
two interlocking diamonds (i.e., no folder is shown).

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• Continue to expand the menu tree through Plastic Kinematic

LS-DYNA > Nonlinear > Inelastic > Kinematic Hardening > Plastic Kinematic

• Now fill in the material properties for the aluminum plate…

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• Click “OK” after entering all of the

data shown to the right and then
close the GUI box

• If the hardening parameter, Beta, is 1

set to 1, the model becomes plastic
isotropic strain rate dependent

• If the strain rate parameters are

omitted, the material model reduces
to a strain rate independent plasticity
model

• The element will fail at 12.5%

equivalent true plastic strain

2
3 Close material GUI box
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• Alternate BATCH input commands for what you just did in the GUI:
/prep7
mp, dens, 2, 7860 ! density, kg/m^3
mp, ex, 2, 100e9 ! elastic modulus, N/m^2
mp, nuxy, 2, 0.34 ! Poisson’s ratio
tb, plaw, 2, , , 1 ! P-LAW #1 for MAT #2
tbdata, 1, 289e6, 500e6, 0, 40, 5, 0.125 ! plasticity data …

• Now save the model, enter the solution module, and solve it:
ANSYS Toolbar > SAVE_DB
Solution > Solve > OK
OR issue:
save
/solu
solve
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• After the run finishes, close any message boxes blocking your view.
• Now postprocess the results:
Utility Menu > PlotCtrls > Style > Edge Options > Edge Only / All > OK
General Postproc > Read Results > Last Set
General Postproc > Plot Results > Contour Plot > Nodal Solu >
Stress > von Mises SEQV > OK (or whatever else you wish to animate)
Utility Menu > PlotCtrls > Animate > Over Results … > Stress >
von Mises SEQV > OK
OR issue:
/edge, , 1
/post1
set, last
plnsol, s, eqv
andata, 0.5, , , , , 1, , 1

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• When done viewing the animation, exit ANSYS:

ANSYS Toolbar > Quit > OK
OR issue:
/eof

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