BUCKLING, POST-BUCKLING, AND COLLAPSE ANALYSIS WITH ABAQUS
PROVIDING THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE CRITICAL SUCCESS OF DESIGNS FOR MAXIMUM ENERGY ABSORPTION DURING COLLAPSING AUTOMOBILE
Course Objective
Buckling and post-buckling behavior are critical to the success of certain designs. For example, the crashworthiness of an automobile requires that particular vehicle components collapse in ways that maximize energy absorption. On the other hand, successful designs of imperfection-sensitive, thin-walled shell structures, ranging from beverage containers to large pressure vessels, must prevent unintentional buckling.
This course blends the theoretical background on such topics as geometric nonlinearity and the Riks method together with examples, guidelines, and workshops to demonstrate how to:
- Identify an imperfection-sensitive structure
- Extract closely spaced eigenvalues efficiently
- Introduce imperfections into a “perfect” mesh
- Use the Riks method effectively
- Use damping to control unstable motions
Who Should Attend
This course is recommended for engineers with experience using Abaqus/Standard.
Course Overview
The overview provides details of the topics covered in each lecture. Please note that the actual course agenda may vary depending on location.