USDFLD
to redefine any
field variables before they are passed in; and
is described further in.
Storage of stress and strain components
In the stress and strain arrays and in the matrices
DDSDDE
,
DDSDDT
, and
DRPLDE
,
direct components are stored first, followed by shear components. There
are
NDI
direct and
NSHR
engineering shear components. The order of the
components is defined in. Since the number of active stress and strain
components varies between element types, the routine must be coded to
provide for all element types with which it will be used.
Defining local orientations
If a local orientation is used at the same point as user subroutine
UMAT
, the
stress and strain components will be in the local orientation; and, in the case of
finite-strain analysis, the basis system in which stress and strain components
are stored rotates with the material.
Stability
You should ensure that the integration scheme coded in this routine is
stable
—
no direct provision is made to include a stability limit in the time
stepping scheme based on the calculations in
UMAT