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Asked 3 years ago
Elham Askari
4.39Shahrood University of Technology
Any suggestions about direct cyclic analysis in abaqus ?
I want modeling fatigue steel railway bridge and a moving train is my load,do I
need to enter my load to form cyclic? I do need some step or only one direct cyclic
step is enough?
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3 years ago
Taha Ibrahim
Benha University

Example:
if we want to apply 1000 load cycles, the time period of each cycle is 0.25s.
Amplitude, as the term suggests, is just a scaling factor to the amount of load you
wish to apply. So, instead of ramping up the load to the final value, if I wanted
to have a triangular waveform, I could enter a table in the amplitude definition as
follows:
Time | Amplitude
==================
0.0 | 0.0
_______________
0.5 | 0.5
_______________
1.0 | 0.0
So, if my ultimate load value is, say, 100 N, then at time=0.0, load=0.0*100=0.0.
At time=0.5, load=0.5*100=50, ..
You can even assign a user defined loading protocol, if that's needed.
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3 years ago
Taha Ibrahim
Benha University

Example:
if we want to apply 1000 load cycles, the time period of each cycle is 0.25s.
Amplitude, as the term suggests, is just a scaling factor to the amount of load you
wish to apply. So, instead of ramping up the load to the final value, if I wanted
to have a triangular waveform, I could enter a table in the amplitude definition as
follows:
Time | Amplitude
==================
0.0 | 0.0
_______________
0.5 | 0.5
_______________
1.0 | 0.0
So, if my ultimate load value is, say, 100 N, then at time=0.0, load=0.0*100=0.0.
At time=0.5, load=0.5*100=50, ..
You can even assign a user defined loading protocol, if that's needed.
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3 years ago
Luiz Carlos Rolim Lopes
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda
You can apply a waveform as ramps in such way to form a triangular waveform.
Other way is to apply the loading history by introducing constant increments of
time, for each value of load, in a given period of time, until you reach the
maximum load. Then you do it again, changing the sense of loading. You can enter
this loading history by means of a table: time X load
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3 years ago
Surendra Sujakhu
Nanyang Technological University
This video tutorial gives good overview of Direct cyclic analysis in Abaqus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDfwV-
d4dLQ&index=3&list=PLE4jpqcRJiBrNlnkqCrCLJHKoIEs71mQP
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2 years ago
Kim Dong hyun
Hanyang University

Thanks for your answer.

I have a questions.
How can I apply a number of cycle?
For example, i want to apply the time period of each cycle is 1s and 10000 load
cycle.
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a year ago
Nazirah ab wahab
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Hello, may I know..
if Direct Cyclic analysis is applied for Step 2, so what analysis should apply for
Step 1?
Thank you
a year ago
Mohammad Malekan
University of S�o Paulo
Dear Nazirah,
I'm not expert in the FCG topic, But I think you have to use a "General Static"
analysis for step 1, and apply the initial loading in this step. The initial
loading could be the minimum load in the fatigue analysis.
3 months ago
Bo Lei
Southwest Jiaotong University
Your problem should be belonged to high-cycle, however, ABAQUS deals with low-cycle
problem.
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