Plastic beams and elastic-plastic rods in Project Chrono

[kai liu]

Recently, I have been studying EFA module in Project Chrono. I have a question that whether the simulation of plastic beams and elastic-plastic rods can be realized in Project Chrono. I would appreciate it that your reply.

[Mike Taylor]

Kai,

I would recommend taking a look at the Chrono documentation for the currently implemented FEA elements (https://api.projectchrono.org/9.0.0/manual_fea_elements.html). While I have not used the IGA beam or any of the plasticity functionality, the element documentation and .h file claims that this beam element supports a plasticity model.  In the documentation there a couple of other elements that also state that they support a plasticity model.   

Hopefully that helps,

Best Regards,

Mike Taylor