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 Contents

Introduction
About This Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Course Design Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Course Length. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Laboratory Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
About the Training Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
User Interface Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Conventions Used in this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Use of Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
What is SOLIDWORKS Simulation?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Premium: Nonlinear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
More SOLIDWORKS Training Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Local User Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Introduction to Nonlinear Structural Analysis

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Types of Nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Geometric Nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Material Nonlinearities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Solving Nonlinear Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Geometric Nonlinear Analysis

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Small Displacement Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Large Displacement Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Finite Strain Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Large Deflection Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Material Models and Constitutive Relations

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Elastic Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Linear Elastic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Nonlinear Elastic Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Hyper-elastic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Elasto-Plastic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Basic Characteristics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Essential Concepts of Elasto-plasticity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Elasto-Plastic Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Super Elastic Nitinol Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Flow Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Linear Visco-Elastic Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Creep Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Numerical Procedures for Nonlinear FEA

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Incremental Control Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Force Control Method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Displacement Control Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Arc-length Control Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Iterative Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Newton-Raphson (NR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Modified Newton-Raphson (MNR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Termination Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Contact Analysis
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Global Contact / Gap Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Local Contact / Gap Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Troubleshooting for Gap / Contact Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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Lesson 1:
Large Displacement Analysis
Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Case Study: Hose Clamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Stages in the Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Linear Static Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Auxiliary Boundary Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Solvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Geometrically Linear Analysis: Limitations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Nonlinear Static Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Time Curves (Load Functions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Fixed Incrementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Large Displacement Option: Nonlinear Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Analysis Failure: Large Load Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Fixed Time Incrementation Disadvantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Autostepping Incrementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Autostepping Parameters and Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Advanced Options: Step/Tolerance Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Linear Static Study (Large Displacement) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Lesson 2:
Incremental Control Techniques
Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Incremental Control Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Force Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Displacement Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Case Study: Trampoline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Project Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Stages in the Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Linear Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Membrane Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Nonlinear Analysis - Force Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Initial Instability of Thin Flat Membranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Restart Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Analysis Progress Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Analytical Results for Membranes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Nonlinear Analysis - Displacement Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Displacement Control Method: Displacement Restraints. . . . . . 100
Single Degree of Freedom Control Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Loading Mode in Displacement Control Method . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

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Lesson 3:
Nonlinear Static Buckling Analysis
Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Case Study: Cylindrical Shell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Stages in the Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Linear Buckling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Linear Buckling: Assumptions and Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Linear Static Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Nonlinear Symmetrical Buckling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Arc Length: Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical Equilibrium,
Bifurcation Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Nonlinear Asymmetrical Buckling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Exercise 1: Nonlinear Analysis of a Shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Linear Buckling Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Nonlinear Buckling Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Exercise 2: Nonlinear Analysis of Remote Control Button . . . . . . . 132
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Lesson 4:
Plastic Deformation
Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Plastic Deformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Case Study: Paper Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Stages in the Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Linear Elastic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Nonlinear - von Mises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Nonlinear - Tresca’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Stress Accuracy (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Mesh Sectioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

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Exercise 3: Stress Analysis of a Beam

Using Nonlinear Elastic Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Exercise 4: Oil Well Pipe Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Problem Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Loading Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Goal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Lesson 5:
Hardening Rules
Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Hardening Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Case Study: Crank Arm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Stages in the Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Isotropic Hardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Kinematic Hardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Lesson 6:
Analysis of Elastomers
Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Case Study: Rubber Pipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Stages in the Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Two Constant Mooney-Rivlin (1 Material Curve) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Coefficient of Determination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
2 Constant Mooney-Rivlin (2 Material Curves) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
2 Constant Mooney-Rivlin (3 Material Curves) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
6 Constant Mooney-Rivlin (3 Material Curves) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Exercise 5: Analysis of Seal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Problem Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Loading Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Modeling Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Goal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

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Lesson 7:
Nonlinear Contact Analysis
Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Case Study: Rubber Tube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Instability in Assemblies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Stabilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Releasing Prescribed Displacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Validity and Limitations of Static Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Exercise 6: Gear Assembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Problem Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Loading Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Goal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Lesson 8:
Metal Forming
Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Bending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Case Study: Sheet Bending. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Stages in the Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Plane Strain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Large Strain Formulation Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Convergence Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Automatic Stepping Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Small Strain Vs. Large Strain Formulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Exercise 7: Large Strain Contact Simulation - Flanging . . . . . . . . . 225
Problem Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Loading Conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Goal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

Appendix A:
True and Engineering Stress and Strain
Engineering Stress and Strain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
True Stress and Strain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

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