Extraction of Material Properties using Voxel Meshing and Abaqus

• ABAQUS Voxel File

Select File -> Export -> ABAQUS File -> ABAQUS Voxel File

The Abaqus Voxel Options dialog will be displayed

Select the number of voxels required in x,y and z directions

Select whether to output yarns, matrix or both

Periodic Boundary Conditions

All Tied: Assumes a material continuum where the RVE is considered to be infinitely small compared to the size of the engineering part.

Z untied: Gives a 2.5D simulation, assuming a one layer RVE solving in the x and y directions

Periodic boundary condition equations are generated based on the paper "Unit cells for micromechanical analyses of particle-refined composites", Shuguang Li, Anchana Wongsto, Mechanics of Materials 36(2004) 543-572