Dear Victor,
Happy New Year! Thanks for your new year gift pointing the issues and giving suggestions.
Should I scale materials' mass accordingly of the one-segment model for modal analysis? I got very strange result without doing so.
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Thank you, Victor. I am confused about the terminologies used in different FEA tools. Yes, I was referring to elements with midside nodes such asTet10, Hex8, etc.
I need to use elastic support for the presence of bonded contact. Is it a trial and error step to adjust the stiffness parameter? I can set it as high as possible as long as the solver converges. Correct?
Sorry, bonded contact is supported by CCX with TIE option enabled. It seems that I can use displacement constraint to replace elastic support in this case.
Hi Sergio,
I currently aim for deformation estimation. I wan to learn some basics of FEA and modelling from this exercise. Since I can do simple compression test as stated, FEA result can be verified. I can then know whether I made something wrong …
I came across a page of google book "Physical Testing of Rubber". Although my compression test is not perfect, I think the equation is still useful for me to estimate the Young's modulus (E) in a different way. Well my sample is EVA disc instead of …
Thanks a again, Sergio!
It seems that we better get detailed specs from supplier or test the rubber material by load deflection or tensile test. Shore is not reliable. Correct?
Sorry, my background is EE. A newbie in this area.
Thank you, Dave and Sergio. Very useful hints!
I will try CCX for hyperelastic.
Regarding conversion from Shore A to Young's modulus, Wikipedia shows three equations. For Shore A 28, I have 1.0512 MPa, 0.633 MPa and 1.0416 MPa. The middle is near…