DCP4
Bilinear Quadrilateral With Crack Phase
Number of Nodes: 4
Number of DoFs: 3 (Translation, Translation, Damage)
Integration Scheme: 2nd Order Gauss
Zero Mass Entries On Damage DoFs
Syntax
element DCP4 (1) (2...5) (6) (7) (8) [9]
# (1) int, unique element tag
# (2...5) int, node i, j, k, l
# (6) int, material tag
# (7) double, characteristic length
# (8) double, energy release rate
# [9] double, element thickness, default: 1.0
Remarks
The third DoF is the damage variable. Boundary conditions can be assigned.
The characteristic length
(7)
can be set to zero to automatically determine the value based on geometry.
Recording
This model supports the following additional history variables to be recorded.
variable label
physical meaning
DAMAGE
damage variable
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