13.8 Requesting the section failure ratio across layers

Product: Abaqus/Explicit  

Benefits: You can now request the percentage of failed layers as element field output for a better failure status evaluation of composites.

Description: The output variable SFAILRATIO can be used to request a new element field output failure measure for composite shells. This failure measure is defined as

where is the number of failed layers (a shell layer is considered failed when all of the section points in the layer are failed) and is the total number of layers in the shell. Values for SFAILRATIO are between zero (none of the layers failed) and one (all of the layers failed). SFAILRATIO is available for all failure models available in Abaqus/Explicit.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Guide

Abaqus Keywords Reference Guide