In the following lectures, you will learn how to use Python scripts to run, post-process, and modify Abaqus models. The lectures consist of video-recorded lectures, the slides as pdf files, and the scripting files collected as zip files. The Abaqus example is based on a small one element case loaded in uniaxial tension.
As part of this training module I created four recorded sessions of my presentation:
Lars Mikkelsen is associate professor at the Department of Wind Energy at the Technical University of Denmark. His field of interest is numerical finite elements simulations and experimental characterization of polymer matrix composites, where the focus is on the fatigue and compression behavior of wind turbine blade materials. His work involves the use of the commercial FE-code Abaqus together with user-defined subroutines as well as advanced characterization technics such as 3D X-ray tomography. Throughout the years, Lars has worked with nonlinear buckling and collapse of shell structures relevant for crashworthiness applications as well as simulations of tensile instabilities used in necking predictions during hydro-forming and strain gradient dependent plasticity models. He has been involved in a number of medico-inspired problems as well as in general finite element based projects predicting the influence of nonlinear materials behavior on the structural behavior.
