Mechanical Analysis

Title

Analysis Type - Features List / Utility

Model

Mechanical Analysis

Mech_001 Mechanical analysis introduction

Mechanical (2D)

•Case 1A Base Case Description

•Case 1B Scaling Time for 100 Steps

•Case 1C Scaling Time for 1000 Steps

•Case 1D Inclusion of Damping

•Case 1E S-Curve Load Ramp

•Case 1F Instantaneous Loading

•Explicit dynamic solver

•Various strategies for quasi-static solution

•Time scaling

•% Global damping

•Various time curves - linear, nonlinear, instantaneous

•Case 2A Cylinder with internal and External Pressure

Mech_002 Uniaxial Burial of 2000m of sediment

Mechanical (2D)

•Case 1 Constant Sedimentation Rate

•Case 2 Variable Sedimentation Rate

•Constant/Variable sedimentation

Mech_003 Rift Sandbox Simulation using Prescribed Boundary Data

Mechanical (2D)

•Case 1 Extension via a Prescribed Boundary

•Case 2 Extension with Rapid Sedimentation Rate

•Case 3 Extension with Slow Sedimentation Rate

•Multi-layer sedimentation

•Stratigraphy definition

•Material grids

•Adaptive mesh refinement with coarsening data and plastic strain rate

•Prescribed boundary displacement using part-geometry and prescribed boundary data

Mech_004 Biaxial Test on Sand with Adaptive Remeshing

Mechanical (2D)

•Case 1 Basic Set Up for Adaptive Remeshing

•Case 2 Refinement using Mesh Coarsening Criteria

•Case 3 Refinement using Rate Error Indicators

•Adaptive mesh refinement with coarsening data and plastic strain rate

•Material grids

Mech_005 Formation of Salt Diapirs in 2D (Bench Scale)

Mechanical (2D)

•Case 1 Base Case with Extension only

•Salt material modelled with Herschel-Bulkley viscoplastic material model

•Sand material modelled with SR4 plasticity model

•Extensional/Compressional tectonic movement settings

•Layer sedimentation using variable sedimentation rates/fixed sedimentation horizons

•Stratigraphy pinchout

•Adaptive mesh refinement with coarsening data and strain rates

•Single/Multiple seed point/s for diapir/s formation

•Case 2 Extension and Compression with Sedimentation

•Case 3 Formation of Turtle Back Structures