It is primarily intended for use with fiber-reinforced composite materials and takes into account four different failure modes: fiber tension, fiber compression, matrix tension, and matrix compression. You can also click Damage Evolution in the tree to defines how the material degrades after one or more damage initiation criteria are met. These settings are described in Damage Evolution. Note:
If you specify Hashin damage initiation in your model, you must also request the following
types of output in at least one of your field output requests or history output requests:
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