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Preliminaries
1. Go into the Property Module and click the Create Material icon. In the Edit
Material dialog box, name the material Rubber. From the material editors menu
bar, select Mechanical Elasticity Hyperelastic, select Neo-Hooke as
Strain Energy Potential, Coefficients as Input source and Instantaneous as
Moduli time scale. Enter 200 and 0.0 as C10 and D1 coefficients, respectively.
Figure 2. Stress Strain curve of the instantaneous elastic response of the rubber defined
by means of a Neo-Hooke strain energy potential.
Figure 3. Left, stress relaxation test data at 5% strain. The middle column represents the
stress data normalized by the initial stress value and it is plotted in the right plot.
Figure 7. Terms of Prony series used to model the Rubber time-dependent behaviour.
2. Enter the step module and create a static general step called Step-
Compression with duration of 1E-6s to compress the seal. Turn on the nlgeom
parameter and enter 1E-7s as initial increment size. The very small step size is
required since the *visco procedure uses the total time (not the step time) to
calculate the time-dependent properties of the material.
Create then a *Visco step called Step-relaxation, enter a time period of 50 s, 0.1
as initial increment size and 0.1 as viscolelastic strain error tolerance. This step
will calculate the stress relaxation of the seal in 50s. Viscoelastic properties are
only taken into account in the Visco, Couple temp-disp and Dynamic procedures.
3. Create a new History Output request, choosing the set called Set-RP as
region and RF2 as output variable. This output will monitor the time history of the
reaction force necessary to compress the seal.
6. Interactions
Enter the Interaction module to create a mechanical interaction between the Seal
and the two rigid bodies.
7. Boundary conditions
8. Job module
Enter the Job module and create a new Job called Stress-Relaxation. Submit
the job and monitor the convergence.
2. Show the contour map of the Von Mises stress field in the seal by clicking on
the Plot Contours icon. Animate the video.
3. Plot the time variation of the reaction force required to compress the seal
component. In the main menu, select Result History output. In the dialog box
select the entry that refers to the reaction force at the set called SET-RP and
press the button Plot.