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Why kinematic energy so high relative to internal energy?

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Hello everyone,

I am trying to run a quasi-static simulation crushing a tube between two flat, rigid plates. One plate is standing still, the other displacement driven (7 mm in 0.1 s). I would have expected that it still counts as quasi-static and the kinetic energy is much lower than internal energy, but that is not the case, see attached plots.

 

I uploaded a course version of my model as reference. the original mesh is finer.

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Has anyone a clue what I am doing wrong?

I also tried to run the same simulation with implicit solver and 7 mm in 10 s as displacement. It took me a while until the simulation finished without error, but the results are just "different", and i cant tell which is more wrong or right. However, in implicit the energy ratio drops just after start of the simulation from 1 to 0, which I do not understand as well. A clue here would be much appreciated aswell.

 

Kind regards,

Richard

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Negative Volume
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If you internal energy is zero then there's something wrong with you model setup. My theory is that your units are messed up. What unit system are you using? I know you mentioned mm and seconds but not sure if you mass is g or ton

https://www.dynasupport.com/howtos/general/consistent-units

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Hi NegativeVolume,

I hope i did not mess up the unit system. I was using ton/mm/s/N/MPa.

I am simulating a compresible foam material that is encased with steel. The test setup is e.g. radial/axial compression or 3p Bending. Always the kinematic energy is very large. I tried implicit analysis, but not sure if that makes sense.

 

My steel case (hill 3R mat 122) has RO=7.8E-9 (t/mm^3) E=1.6E5 (MPa), PR=0.3, R00=0.77, R45=0.62, R90=0.60.
The hardening curve is like this (in MPa):

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The foam (mat 063) has RO=2.5E-9 (t/mm^3), E=500 (MPa), PR=0.01, TSC = 10 MPa.
The hardening curve is like this (in MPa):

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Any ideas what i am doing wrong?

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Sorry @richardp I meant to follow up on this. I saw you marked this topic as complete, did you resolve your issue? 

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Hi @negativevolume, yes, I sorted it out. But since I have so many different topics currently I am not even sure tight now what the issue was 🙂

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