Dear All,
I have a kind of elastomer material that I want to simulate, basically, it's a disc with a hole in the middle I move its edge vertically over a ball, the ball will deform the disc to a certain point. Now I want to know if I can simulate the relaxation of the disc, if it would be strong enough to retain its shape? I suppose that the material has been deformed elastically.
The elastomer's specs have been determined empirically, we took a slab of material and pulled it at different length and noted the force to build up a stress strain curve. the curve is a line pretty much straight.
Is it possible on Simulation to simulate that? Right now, I am at the end of the first phase, I pushed the disc onto the ball to have it deformed. Now I want to cancel all force and see if the disc would go back up and retain its shape.
Thanks.
If material is linear (stress strain) and you not exceed yield strength then it will always go back to first shape. You don't need simulation for it.
If you go beyond yield and you have full stress strain curve for material you can calculate shape after remove force but only in SimulationPremium (non linear analyse)
If you just need to check if model stresses will go beyond some limits ie. yielding you can do that in SolidWorks sim. Perhaps even in eXpress.