14.6 User-defined viscous behavior for materials defined within the parallel rheological framework

Product: Abaqus/Explicit  

Benefits: You can now specify a user-defined viscous behavior for material models specified using the parallel rheological framework in Abaqus/Explicit. This feature was previously available only in Abaqus/Standard.

Description: In addition to the models available with the parallel rheological framework, the capability to define user creep models within user subroutine VUCREEPNETWORK is now available in Abaqus/Explicit. This functionality allows you to define creep models that, in general, can depend on equivalent Mises stress, pressure, equivalent creep strain, selected invariants of the Cauchy-Green creep and total strain tensors, temperatures, and field variables.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Guide

Abaqus Keywords Reference Guide

Abaqus User Subroutines Reference Guide