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L3.2
Overview
Direct cyclic analysis is a cost-effective
technique for predicting the low-cycle fatigue
life of an elastic-plastic structure subjected
to cyclic thermo-mechanical loading.
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Motivation
The classical approach to obtaining a stabilized state is to apply multiple
loading cycles to the structure until the cycle stabilizes.
This can be very expensive as it may take many loading cycles
before the response stabilizes.
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50-60 cycles
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User interface
Direct cyclic procedure with
fixed time incrementation:
*DIRECT CYCLIC
Direct cyclic procedure with
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*STEP
*DIRECT CYCLIC
*END STEP
or
*STEP
*STATIC
*END STEP
*STEP
*DIRECT CYCLIC
*END STEP
You can restart a direct cyclic step from a general step or another direct
cyclic step.
*RESTART, READ, STEP=, ITERATION=, ENDSTEP, WRITE, FREQ=
*DIRECT CYCLIC, CONTINUE=YES (NO)
The maximum number of Fourier terms can be increased upon
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restart.
Contact conditions in a direct cyclic step are fixed.
Abaqus/Viewer supports visualization of field and history output
generated from the direct cyclic procedure.
The element output includes stress; strain; energies; and the
values of state, field, and user-defined variables.
The nodal output variable includes displacements, reaction forces,
and current coordinates
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Results and performance: CPU time (seconds) for the cylinder head
with 80,000 Dofs
Direct Cyclic (31 terms; Classical Approach
200 x 120 Increments) (60 x 120 Increments)
Decomposition 51 (performed once; subsequent passes 38
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Summary
The direct-cyclic procedure:
is a quasi-static analysis;
can be the only step, can follow a general or linear perturbation
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