Dassault Systemes Inc. Modeling Fracture and Failure with Abaqus

Dassault official course notes on Modeling Fracture and Failure with Abaqus. Workshop notes are included.Course objectives
Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
Use proper modeling techniques for capturing crack-tip singularities in fracture mechanics problems
Use Abaqus/CAE to create meshes appropriate for fracture studies
Calculate stress intensity factors and contour integrals around a crack tip
Simulate material damage and failure
Simulate crack growth using cohesive behavior, VCCT, and XFEM
Simulate low-cycle fatigue crack growthContents:
Lecture 1 Basic Concepts of Fracture Mechanics
Lecture 2 Modeling Cracks
Lecture 3 Fracture Analysis
Workshop 1 Crack in a Three-point Bend Specimen
Workshop 2 Crack in a Helicopter Airframe Component
Lecture 4 Material Failure and Wear
Lecture 5 Element-based Cohesive Behavior
Workshop 3 Crack Growth in a Three-point Bend Specimen using Cohesive Connections (Part 1)
Workshop 4 Crack Growth in a Helicopter Airframe Component using Cohesive Elements
Lecture 6 Surface-based Cohesive Behavior
Workshop 3 Crack Growth in a Three-point Bend Specimen using Cohesive Connections (Part 2)
Lecture 7 Virtual Crack Closure Technology (VCCT)
Workshop 5 Crack Growth in a Three-point Bend Specimen using VCCT
Lecture 8 Low-cycle Fatigue
Lecture 9 Mesh-independent Fracture Modeling (XFEM)
Workshop 6 Crack Growth in a Three-point Bend Specimen using XFEM
Workshop 7 Modeling Crack Propagation in a Pressure Vessel with Abaqus using XFEM