Products: Abaqus/Explicit Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: You can now define low-density foam materials in Abaqus/CAE. This enhancement increases the coverage and ease-of-use of product functionality within Abaqus/CAE.
Description: Abaqus/CAE now provides support for low-density foam materials in the Property module, as shown in Figure 7–2.
You can create a material model to describe a low-density, highly compressible elastomeric foam with significant rate-sensitive behavior (such as polyurethane foam). Abaqus calculates material parameters from test data that you enter in the Test Data Editor. You must provide uniaxial test data for both tension and compression. Your test data must specify the uniaxial stress-strain curve for different strain rate values.
Property module: Material editor: MechanicalElasticity
