Simple shear

In this problem a state of simple shear is induced in a single element up to a nominal shear strain of 300%. The material model is isotropic linear elasticity. There are no physical materials that exhibit linear elastic response to such large shear strain. The purpose of this example problem is to verify the large deformation and large rotation algorithms in Abaqus/Explicit.

The material properties used are Young's modulus = 1.0, Poisson's ratio = 0.0, and density = 1.346 × 10⁻⁴.

In this problem all the in-plane degrees of freedom are either zero or are prescribed as functions of time. The value used for the density controls the time increment size, and it was chosen to give a time increment size that results in about 1% shear strain per increment.

This problem is analyzed using five different element types, each of which is defined twice. Each element in the bottom row is sheared in the x-direction; each element in the top row is sheared in the y-direction.