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zhang yang

How to use effective properties obtained from TexGen4SC for shell structure.

Recently, i obtain the TexGen4SC to obtain the effective properties of textile, but there are some questions . I build two SGs for example in the software TexGen4SC, and my shell structure is a laminate just two layers, so I use the first SG to obtain the effective properties for layer one in structure , and then the second SG is for the other layer,  the property assignment is completed in ABAQUS, the understanding or method that applying textile material to laminate shell structure is right? Thank you!

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    Wenbin Yu

    If you want to model it as a plate, then it is better to obtain effective plate properties (A, B, D matrices for classical plate model) using TexGen4SC directly. You need to decide with respect to the plate reference, what is the corresponding plate genome. You only have one SG through the thickness, it should include both layers. 

    If you use a traditional two-step homogenization approach, then you use one SG for each layer to homogenize it to a 3D solid (6x6 stiffness matrix), then use these properties as inputs for the composite layup analysis in Abaqus to carry out the laminate shell analysis as it is made of multiple homogeneous layers. The results of this approach will not be that accurate because the first step requires scale separation while the thickness of the shell is almost the same as the SG size. 

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    Xin Liu

    Yang,

    Prof, Yu has provided two approaches for solving your problem. The first one would be more accurate if you can identify the SG for your plate model (only one SG for your shell structure instead of two SGs). You can find some useful references (Prof. Yu's presentation slides) about how to identify SGs on cdmhub. Then, you can use "General Shell stiffness" in Abaqus to input the A, B and D matrices which are the outputs for MSG plate model using TexGen4SC. In this way, you can get almost the same accurate results (displacements, stresses/strains) as the directly numerical simulation.

     

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      Anonymous

      Thank you brother Liu and Prof. Yu for  so friendly helping me solve the problem. I have been clear  about my difficulty. Meanwhile this give me a opinion that the discussion is so significant. If there is other question , I am looking forward to writing to you.Thank you !

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        Wenbin Yu

        You are welcome. Feel free to let others know cdmHUB and SwiftComp. In the future, it is better to post your questions inside https://cdmhub.org/groups/yugroup/forum to get quicker answers regarding MSG/SwiftComp.

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    Hossein Salehan

    Hello

    I'm Hossein Salehan. I'm a student of AUT. I'm doing research on woven fabrics composites.

    In my research, I encountered your article. Its title is: (( Two-Step Homogenization of Textile Composites Using Mechanics of Structure Genome )). This article is very good and useful.

     

    I decided to take the examples that are in article and you did them using the TexGen4SC software to I learn modeling and homogenization with TexGen4SC (in https://cdmhub.org/tools/texgen4sc) and extract homogenized properties of textile composites, But none of all modeling don't like your reported answers in the article.

    I have sent you my answers.

    http://s8.picofile.com/file/8319845226/validate_Wenbin_Yu.pdf.html

    Is it possible for you to explain how to model the examples in the article by TexGen4SC for me step by step, along with doing a practical example?!

    If possible, one or two examples of modeling with TexGen4SC in the article, done and take a video and send for me.

     

    Please respond to this email: hosseinsalehan20@gmail.com

    Please do not display my message on the site.

    thank you very much…

    Thanks for your cooperation…

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      Xin Liu

      Hi Salehan,

      It seems you did not perform two-step homogenization to first get yarn properties. It is not right to directly use fiber properties as yarn properties. You should first perform the first step homogenization to get yarn properties which should be the same as in Table 2. Then use the properties in Table 2 to define yarn properties to perform the second homogenization to get fabric properties. In addition, I did not add 10% matrix into the SG which is selected by default in TexGen4SC, so you should unselect this option.

      For the first plain weave example, the mesh should be 40*40*10. You should use the same mesh to compare the results in the paper. Besides, if you want to compare aperiodic results, you should only select y3, which means no periodicity in the y3 direction. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

      Good luck!

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