Connector damage behavior

Connector damage behavior:

  • can be specified in any connectors with available components of relative motion;

  • can be used to degrade the elastic, elastic-plastic, or rigid plastic response in connector elements;

  • can use a force-based, motion-based, or plastic motion–based damage initiation criterion upon which response degradation may be triggered;

  • can use either a (plastic) motion-based or an energy-based damage evolution law to degrade the force response in the connector;

  • can be defined in terms of several competing damage mechanisms; and

  • can be used only as an indicator of proximity to the damage initiation point without degrading the connector response.

The following topics are discussed:

Related Topics
About connectors
Connector behavior
In Other Guides
*CONNECTOR BEHAVIOR
*CONNECTOR DAMAGE EVOLUTION
*CONNECTOR DAMAGE INITIATION
*CONNECTOR ELASTICITY
*CONNECTOR PLASTICITY
*CONNECTOR POTENTIAL
*SECTION CONTROLS
Defining damage

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