hourglass stiffness

The enhanced hourglass control method is available for first-order solid, membrane, and finite-strain shell elements with reduced integration. In Abaqus/ ...

Hourglass control stiffness parameter for use with membrane and solid elements and for membrane hourglass mode control in shells. Units are stress (FL). If this ...

Hourglass control attempts to minimize this problem without introducing excessive constraints on the element's physical response. The following methods are ...

The hourglass control defined with this option affects only those elements whose section properties are defined by the immediately preceding section option.

Set HOURGLASS=COMBINED to define the viscous-stiffness form of hourglass control for solid and membrane elements with reduced integration in Abaqus/Explicit.

R.I. with hourglass control (works for all element types; choice and design of ... This is default element in ABAQUS. This can be extended to finite strains. F ...

2021年1月8日 — Hi, has anyone any information about the way Abaqus handles the hourglass control in regards to the actual implementation?

2020年12月2日 — Setting the hourglass control to stiffness with a scale factor of 1 or 2 may be good choice. However be aware that increasing the hourglass ...

2018年5月21日 — Hourglassing that occurs with the default hourglass control parameters is usually an indication that the mesh is too coarse. Therefore, it is ...