UEXPAN

User subroutine to define incremental thermal strains.

User subroutine UEXPAN:

  • can be used to define incremental thermal strains as functions of temperature, predefined field variables, and state variables;

  • is intended for models in which the thermal strains depend on temperature and/or predefined field variables in complex ways or depend on state variables, which can be used and updated in this routine;

  • is called at all integration points of elements for which the material or gasket behavior definition contains user-subroutine-defined thermal expansion; and

  • is called twice per material point in each iteration during coupled temperature-displacement and coupled thermal-electrical-structural analyses.

The following topics are discussed:

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Thermal expansion
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