Accurately calibrating failure behavior in polymer materials often requires more than identifying how far simulations deviate from physical test results. Once failure strain error has been quantified, engineers must determine how to translate that information into controlled updates of material regularization behavior. d3VIEW addresses this need with the *GISSMO_SCALE_REGULARIZATION_SCALE_FACTORS worker, which enables automated, rule-based scaling…

Accurately determining and comparing failure strain between physical tests and simulations is a vital part of material calibration, validation, and iterative improvement of constitutive models.  Below image illustrates a single test (black) that requires to be compared with several simulations with varying degrees of correlation. Picking the simulation that best matches the test is critical…