Training Course Descriptions

Live Web-based Course

Classical Fracture and Failure with Abaqus

Tuesday, August 24 – 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., PDT Wednesday, August 25 – 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., PDT

The registration deadline is August 17; an additional fee of $50 will be applied after this date.

Take advantage of this web-based course on "Classical Fracture and Failure with Abaqus" right from your desk — no productivity loss due to travel and no travel expenses. The lecture content of this web-based course is conveniently scheduled over two morning sessions. The course workshops can be completed during the afternoons at your convenience, while support engineers from SIMULIA West are available by phone to help you.

Objective:

You will learn the necessary techniques and strategies used for evaluating a structure with an existing flaw.  In addition, an introduction to the damage based cohesive elements and surfaces will be given for those interested in advancing from classical fracture mechanics to crack propagation studies.

Topics that will be covered include:

• Classical fracture mechanics primer
• 2D and 3D crack modeling techniques
• 2D and 3D meshing strategies
• Specifying the singularity at the crack tip
• Stress intensity factors
• Contour integrals
• Fracture specific output requests
• Overview of damage framework and cohesive technology
• Stabilization techniques related to cohesive behavior
• Damage specific output requests related to cohesive behavior

Who should attend:

This course is recommended for engineers with experience using Abaqus who need to understand and simulate classical fracture mechanics and are also interested in learning more about the damage based framework available in the cohesive behavior capabilities in Abaqus.

Schedule:

This course is presented in two morning sessions from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. PDT; lectures and demos will be presented by the instructor during this time.  There is a one-hour break following each morning session.  After the break, you will work on the workshops at your own pace.  The workshop sessions are conducted offline with technical support provided by SIMULIA West from 1 p.m. till 5 p.m. PDT via email and telephone (510) 794-5891.

Instructor

Doug Dominick, Senior Application Engineer - SIMULIA West

Prior to joining SIMULIA's western regional office in September 2008, Doug Dominick worked as a mechanical engineer for 20 years in the aerospace, medical device, power generation, and consumer products industries  gaining over 15 years of experience using FEA.  Doug also started and successfully ran an engineering consulting company for 10 years.  Now a senior application engineer at SIMULIA, he performs consulting and mentoring services, conducts training seminars and provides customer support.  Additionally he supports pre- and post-sales efforts in Southern California.  Doug received an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on finite element methods and polymer engineering.

Pricing:

The registration cost for this course is $399 per person plus an additional $150 for each printed copy of the training material. The training material is required for accessing workshop instructions and files. Training materials ordered after August 17 will incur an additional processing and shipping fee of $50.
Every registrant will receive a free Abaqus Student Edition – a $99 value. We offer sizable discounts for group registrations from the same site†. The table below lists the discount pricing schedule.

†Same-site discounts applicable only on a single registration form.

Academic Discount
Discount of 80% will be offered on the registration fee to all academic institutions. This discount cannot be combined with multiple attendee discount. The registrations with the academic discount will not include workshop support. This discounted price is not applicable to training material.  Contact SIMULIA West for further details.

Course was last updated July 2010

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