Dear Community, I want to include a non-local regularization technique in the built-in Mohr-Coulomb model of abaqus to capture the strain-localization effects. I am trying to find the original VUMAT […]
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Error in abaqus when use sanisand

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Hi everyone When I use sanisand model in abaqus , This error is seen Can anyone help? Other subroutines work well for me Is it possible for my input parameters […]
hypoplasticity umat filr

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hello every one i have a problem with abaqus subroutine can i use hypoplastic umat file that prepared for palxis in this website in abaqus? or the files must be […]
Spurious oscillations in calculated accelerations

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Hello everyone, I have just a general question how people approach the problem of spurious oscillations generated in dynamic analysis when using nonlinear soil constitutive models. I understand sometimes numerical […]
Difference between ExCalibre and Plaxis for Oedometer test

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Hello all, i did the automatic calibration for the Dobrany and Motol sand and tried to model the soil tests also in Plaxis and then to compare both. For the […]
Dear community, I’m interested in constitutive models that can handle strain-rate effects for HSR on sands for simulating free fall penetration. I would appreciate any help. Do you know any […]
Hypoplastic Model for Clays (Masin): Ag, ng or Gvh, n

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Dr. Masin I have downloaded the most recent dll for Plaxis that includes the HypoPlastic model for Clays that you developed. I see two new parameters (Gvh0 and n), both […]
Cyclic constitutive model for cemented granular soils

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if you could please let me know whether Is there any constitutive model exist for capturing cyclic response for cemented materials just like cemented sand and gravelly soils.
lade umat file

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Hi everyone, I work on soil constitutive models and I want to compare soil behaviours with various constitutive models but I can’t find Lade umat in the .for format. Can […]
ExCalibre Automatic Calibration

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Hello all, i have another question regarding the calibration process. Why do the initial void ratios differ between the input file and the output from excalibre? What is done during […]
Cyclic simple shear test simulation with hypoplasticity

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Dear All, I am using sand hypoplastic model in my research and I have encountered some problem when looking into cyclic simple shear test in the range of small strains. […]
Hypoplastic Model inquire

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Dear Prof. David Mašín Greetings I would like to discuss with you an issue. I have a problem in my simulation on ABAQUS. The problem in the simulation results is […]
ExCalibre Automatic Calibration

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Hello all, According to my last post some weeks ago I now have translated the laboratory data from engineering strain to true strain with the following formula: epsilon(true)=ln(1+epsilon(engineering)). I compared […]
Greeting Everyone, I’m a new user of ABAQUS. I’m trying to simulate soil dynamic compaction by Cap model. I simulated the blow by half sinusoidal wave. Although I used Cap […]
Calibration the UMAT sand hypoplastic parameters

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Dear all, I’m facing trouble in calculating NO. 16 parameter in the UMAT for sand hypoplasticity by Dr. Masin, any help will be really appreciated especially with an example. Best […]
ABAQUS Linking With Fortran Compiler and Visual Studio

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Hi all, Can somebody recommmend a good detailed guide for the procedures required to link ABAQUS 6.14 to Intel Fortran Compiler and Microsoft Visual Studio? Thank you, Hashmi
PhD course “Hypoplasticity for Practical Applications”

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Are the slides in regards to Stiffness Anisotropy for Clay Hypoplasticity for the PhD course available online? The available document {Mašín, D. (2015) Part 4: Determination of material parameters, PhD […]
ExCalibre Automatic Calibration

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Hello all, i hava a problem with the Oedometer curves after the automatic calibration with ExCalibre. I took the Dobrany sand dataset for an automatic calibration and then i copied […]
Calibration problem

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Dear Prof. David Mašín I am posting the queries I have emailed you as per your advice to post it here. During calibration for the basic hypoplasticity parameters using the […]
Clay Hypoplastic Model ABAQUS UMAT

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Hi, I wanted to ask if the variables/parameters defined in the online Hypoplastic model manual for PLAXIS (https://web.natur.cuni.cz/uhigug/masin/plaxumat/node6.html) are the same for the ABAQUS UMAT?
Prof. David Masin, I am posting the queries I have emailed you earlier which you have answered and therefore I am posting it here as per your request. I wish […]
Book “Modelling of soil behaviour on hypoplasticity” has been published

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Hardcopies of my new book “Modelling of Soil Behaviour with Hypoplasticity – Another Approach to Soil Constitutive Modelling” just arrived. The book is available for hardcover or pdf orders at https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783030039752
Hypoplastic model for Granular soil

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Hello everyone, Could you please anyone tell me that how I can define the hypoplastic constitutive model for granular soil in ABAQUS 6.13. With Regards, Naveen.
Calibration Sand Hypoplasticity whit ExCalibre

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Dear all I have some laboratory test of Pescara sand and I’m trying to find the von Wolffersdorff parameters of this sand. So I have used ExCalibre with the data […]
New book “Modelling of Soil Behaviour of Hypoplasticity”

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I have just returned to Springer proofs of my new book “Modelling of Soil Behaviour of Hypoplasticity – Another Approach to Soil Constitutive Modelling“. It will probably still take few […]
multi yield surface model

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Hi everyone, i am trying to write umat subroutine for multi yield surface plasticity model.if its possible give me some information to do my project better and if some body […]
ExCalibre – Definiton of q

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Hello, I am performing calibration trials for the hypoplastic sand model with the aid of ExCalibre and i was wondering how the deviatoric stresses q for the triaxial test input […]
ALERT Geomaterials – SoilModels support declaration

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ALERT Geomaterials (The Alliance of Laboratories in Europe for Education, Research and Technology) is a European organisation including 33 Universities or Organisations, which are most active in the field of numerical […]
Constitutive Model for clayey sand Soils Considering the Effect of Intergranular Physicochemical Forces

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Hi all, I’m doing some experimental work to investigate the salinity effect on clayey sand behaviour. Is there any constitutive model considering the physicochemical forces for such materials? Regards, Mehdi
Difficulties in calibration of triaxial test on Hochstetten sand by sand Hypoplasticity model

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“A hypoplastic relation for granular materials with a predefined limit state surface” paper by P. A. Von Wolffersdorff April 1996 include a triaxial test result of sample 10cm diameter and […]
Greetings i used interface Vumat with Umat for simulating CEL problem, after 50% of analysis, i got the error as “Excessive incremental rotation of the elements in element set ” […]
MatLab m.file

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Hi everyone, I’m trying to simulate a triaxial test by using Matlab, adopting the sand hypoplasticity model with strain softening but so far couldn’t succeed. Would anyone help me with […]
The constitutive models PM4Sand (Boulanger and Ziotopoulou 2017) and PM4Silt (Boulanger and Ziotopoulou 2018) for plane-strain earthquake engineering applications for sands, and clays and low-plasticity silts respectively are now available […]
UMAT in Geotechnics
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Hi Everyone! I am a research Intern at Laval University, my project is about the effect of soil structure interaction on the seismic design of Geostructures. Exactly we want to […]
Hello, I read the research report and the FORTRAN code available at https://soilmodels.com/download/vumat_umatinterface-zip/. It sounds quite interesting but I have a couple of questions about the FORTRAN code: 1- Did […]
Oedometer test simulation with “Sand Hypoplasticity Model” in Plaxis

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Hi, I just came across some problems with the implementation of the “Sand Hypoplasticity Model” in Plaxis. I wanted to to perform a simulation of an oedometer test on a […]
PM4SAND model

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Hi all, I have been trying to code the PM4SAND model for several months, but I faced some problems. I was wondering if there is anyone who worked with this […]
Automatic calibration software ExCalibre has been launched

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On behalf of the team of developers I am happy to announce that, after more than four years of development and testing, ExCalibre has just been launched. ExCalibre is a […]
Regarding FRIC : As a beginner

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Sir, As a beginner of FRIC I am facing some difficulties to implement it. The downloaded FRIC code has been added to my pile soil friction model and trying to […]
Compile triax calibration software under windows

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1. Download install exe (32 or 64 bit) from https://cygwin.com/install.html 2. Choose a mirror site / click Next and select all packages you need for compiling: Type: “gcc” into search […]
Hypoplastic Interface Model: Virtual Shear Zone Thickness and Surface Rougness Coefficient

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Hello, I want to use Hypoplastic Interface (Fric Subroutine) in my ABAQUS contact models. However, I don’t know how I can determine Virtual Shear Zone Thickness. It is the Parameter […]
Velacs Project Data

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Dear colleagues, I want to ask your help — does anyone know where we can find all the test data from the old Velacs Project? If so, that would be […]
Error: permission to access files denied (Hypoplasticity in PLAXIS)

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Hello, I am trying to implement the dll for hypoplasticity in Plaxis 3D. It runs through both the Initial Phase and a Nil Step. However, when it calculates about 20 […]
Triaxial Callibration test with Hypoplasticity

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Dear all I am trying to calibrate the HP for sand, and I have quite comprehensive data. but they are not totally consistent with each other . we have the […]
Calibration of Hypoplastic material model parameters

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I would like to derive material parameters based for a simulation which will implement the hypoplastic material model based on the following information: • Heavily overconsolidated • Very dense, fine […]
Hypoplastcity sand model

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Not able to run the subroutine ……..error is coming ……UMAT: illegal (negative) actual void ratio detected Can anybody help
Subroutine of SANISAND model

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I am trying use sanisand subroutine posted in this website. But it is not working. Getting no values for field variable in the odb. I think i am missing something. […]
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