Dear all,
I am migrating from ABAQUS (primarily because the university decided to not buy the licenses any more). I am more of an analyst than a developer so please bear with me. I was working on a model that is basically a disk with a small wedge cut off. For those of you familiar with defects, this is a wedge disclination. I am trying to compute the elastic strain energy in the disclination defect. In ABAQUS, the following steps were performed:
1) Join the two edges of the model with displacement boundary conditions
2) Apply a "tie" constraint (i.e. join the edges as if they are bonded together)
3) Equilibrate after applying the "tie" constraint.
I was wondering if such a constraint exists in the fenics package. Calculix (another open-source FEA suite), for example, has this capability tie. I would like to make sure if such constraints exist in fenics before embarking on completely adapting my files for fenics analysis. Any help is much appreciated.
Thank you,
-Sri
