Failure criteria in Simcenter Samcef materials

In both Samcef Orthotropic Structure or Samcef Orthotropic Bilinear Structure material, you can define several failure criteria.

You can choose between the following criteria:

• Strain Ratio

• Stress Ratio

• Tsai-Wu

• Rice and Tracey

• Maximum Total Strain

• Maximum Stress

• Hashin

• Hoffman

• Tsai-Hill

• Puck

• LaRC04

For more information, see the failure criteria page in the in the Simcenter Samcef solver documentation.

Where do I find it?

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisite	Simcenter Samcef as the specified solver
Command Finder	Manage Materials
Location in dialog box	Type list → Orthotropic → Create Material .Property View list → Samcef Orthotropic Structure or Samcef Orthotropic Bilinear Structure → Damage page

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Composite criteria results codes in structural analyses (Simcenter Samcef)

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Material Failure Criteria Pages in the Orthotropic Material dialog box (Simcenter Samcef Structure)

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