When pore pressure cohesive elements are used in soils procedures in Abaqus/Standard, the fluid constitutive behavior of the cohesive elements can be defined (Defining the constitutive response of fluid within the cohesive element gap and Defining the con

Model: This test comprises single-element models, the geometry of which is defined so that the initial thickness is 1.0 for each case. The thickness direction for the elements is set to the global 1-direction using the *COHESIVE SECTION, STACK DIRECTION o

The “trick” is to use cohesive elements or cohesive surface contact. This modeling approach has been around for many years but many people are still struggling to set it up properly. In this article I will try to demonstrate, by example, how this work