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Stress/Strain Recovery and Visualization

  1. Dana Frye

    Hi All,

    I am attempting to utilize the functionality to perform the dehomogenization and recover and visualize local 3D strains and stresses at every point of the cross section. Before I tried incorporating the specifications for recovery into my model (as per https://wenbinyugroup.github.io/ivabs/prevabs/guide/pre_recover.html), I first just tried to perform the recovery and visualization on the example model ex_airfoil_r packaged with the preVABS release.

    I copied the input files into a new directory, and first ran homogenization via "prevabs -i mh104.xml -h -e -v". This was successful. Then I tried to run the recovery via ""prevabs -i mh104.xml -d -e -v". This is where I'm running into issues. The gmsh plots appear empty (see 2nd attached figure), and warnings are issued such as "Unable to find the file: mh104.sg.EN" (see 1st attached figure). 

    I am using preVABS v1.4.2 and VABS v4.0. 

    I was hoping to get some help with this. If I can't perform recovery of 3D stress/strain and plot with the unmodified example model, I have little hope for doing so with my own model. 

    Thanks, 

    Dana

    Airfoil (MH-104) Recover Warnings

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    1. Dana Frye

      Other gmsh screenshot.

      recover-2.png

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    2. Su Tian

      Hello Dana,

      Please use the attached file to replace the 'ex_airfoil_r' example. The only change is the input syntax for the load in the file 'mh104.xml'. The outdated example will be fixed in the next version.

      ex-airfoil-r.zip

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      1. Kevin Wang

        Hi Su,

        Can you run through stress recovery for the example and share your result?  For some reason every since 1.4, my results are getting scrambled for a portion of the elements.  Attached shows my tube test section as well as the mh104 example.  As you can see from the tube, a portion of it looks to be producing predictable results while the rest seem to be scrambled.

        MH104-example.png

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      2. Dana Frye

        Ran successfully. Thank you!

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    3. Su Tian

      Hi Kevin,

      This is caused by the change of the stress/strain output format of VABS. I will quickly fix this in two days. Thank you for pointing out the issue.

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      1. Kevin Wang

        Thanks Su!

        Regarding running -fi for failure index/strength ratio, when I try to run the example for it, it says everything goes through fine, however there's no .fi file generated.  I've attached a screenshot of the run.

        Per the VABS manual, results should be stored in "input_file_name.fi" correct?

        nofifile.png

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      2. Dana Frye

        Hey Su, 

        Just checking in on the fix here. Do we need to download a new version of preVABS or VABS to take advantage of the fix?

        Thanks

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    4. Su Tian

      Kevin,

      In the current version, you need to run the stress recovery (-d) and failure analysis (-fi) separately. I can update the code to let the two analyses run in a single call of command in a future version.

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    5. Dana Frye

      I am able to run stress recovery and viz with my model, when the <element_type>linear</element_type>. However it doesn't appear to work when <element_type>quadratic</element_type>. Is this a known limitation or an issue on my end?

      Thanks, 

      Dana

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      1. Su Tian

        Dana,

        Thank you for reporting this issue. This has been fixed in the version 1.4.3.

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    6. WenHao down the road Jiang

      Hi All,

      I am attempting to utilize the functionality to perform the dehomogenization and recover and visualize local 3D strains and stresses at every point of the cross section. Figure 1 shows the folder I am running, where I run this command:"prevabs -i mh104.xml -d -e -v".However, the restored graphics were not generated as shown in the example(https://wenbinyugroup.github.io/ivabs/prevabs/contents/run.html). Figure 2 shows an error message with an error message indicating that mh104.sg.u and mh104.sg.ELE could not be found. I would like to know where these two files were generated.

      Thanks,

      Wenhao

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      1. Su Tian

        Can you go to the end of the "mh104.sg.ech" to see if there are any error messages?

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      2. WenHao down the road Jiang

        There is no error messages at the end of the  "mh104.sg.ech".

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      3. Su Tian

        Can you run command 'vabs mh104.sg 1' in this folder and see if there are any error messages in the command prompt?

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      4. WenHao down the road Jiang

        Thank you very much for your reply, when I run this command, my problem has been solved.

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