Abaqus Technology Brief

Summary

Background

Simulation of Hail Impact Using the Smoothed Particle

Hydrodynamic Method in Abaqus/Explicit

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

Key Abaqus/Explicit Features and Benefits

Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics method to efficiently model large deformation with frag-mentation

Robust general contact to automatically handle interaction between particles and regular finite elements

Advanced material models

Convenient meshing with a method to convert regular finite elements to particles

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Analysis Approach

Results and Conclusion

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TB-12-HI-1 Revised: February 2013

Acknowledgement

References

SIMULIA References

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