Damage stabilization

Damage stabilization is available for use with the following damage models for traction separation laws:

• Maxe and Quade damage models. (For information on entering the Maxe and Quade damage initiation criterion in Abaqus/CAE, see Maximum or quadratic nominal strain damage.)

• Maxs and Quads damage models. (For information on entering the Maxs and Quads damage initiation criterion in Abaqus/CAE, see Maximum or quadratic nominal stress damage.)

• Maxps and Maxpe damage models. (For information on entering the Maxps and Maxpe damage initiation criterion in Abaqus/CAE, see Maximum principal stress or strain damage.)

You define damage stabilization for traction separation laws by entering the viscosity coefficient.

Damage stabilization is available for use with the following damage model for fiber-reinforced materials:

• Hashin damage model. (For information on entering the Hashin damage initiation criterion in Abaqus/CAE, see Hashin damage.)

For more information, see Viscous Regularization.

You define damage stabilization for fiber-reinforced materials by entering viscosity coefficients for each of the potential failure modes:

• Fiber tensile failure

• Fiber compressive failure

• Matrix tensile failure

• Matrix compressive failure

Each of the viscous coefficients should be small compared to the increment size.