I have been trying to simulate the triaxial test on a UBC PLM sand sample with fibres reinforced into the model. The fibres are assigned as embedded beams. The sample is cylindrical with a diameter of 50mm and 100mm in height. The analysis works fine until the fibre count is less than 600.
The problem is when I imported the geometry of 4647 fibres in the model from the AutoCAD program and started the meshing, the program crashed.
It crashes just after clicking the mesh stage.
I am uploading the bug report, photos of the sample, and the fibre .dxf file I am using.
4265.bugreport.txt1.0 % Fiber Reinforcement.dxf
Hello Shashank,
That is indeed a very interesting test.
My first question would be if you have tried first with a few fibres rather than importing 4647 objects directly. Simplifying the model can help you get some results, but as Berk mentions, I am not sure how far it can go.
I would expect meshing issues and probably pushing the limits of our finite element meshing code to an application that was not really intended for.
Wow! Pretty ambitious. Why did you think a finite element software can analyze this? I can't imagine a mesh going through these embedded beams.