Product: ABAQUS/Standard
Many of the elements in ABAQUS allow centrifugal, Coriolis, and rotary acceleration forces to be included. This section defines these load types.
It is assumed that the model (or that part of it to which these forces are applied) is described in a coordinate system that is rotating with an angular velocity, , and/or an angular (rotary) acceleration, . Let be a right-handed set of unit, orthogonal vectors that form a basis for this system. Then, and .
If the angular velocity is cast as
is the magnitude of the rotary acceleration; and is the axis of rotary acceleration. If , then and . In component form
Let be a point on the axis of rotation. The position of a material particle, , can be written
We assume that the origin of the rotating system, , is fixed, so that
The virtual work contribution from the d'Alembert forces is
Simplifying,
The terms in can be identified as follows. The first term,
Writing the angular velocity of the rotating basis system as its components in that system, , gives the second term as
The third term is, likewise, rewritten as
Similarly, the fourth term is rewritten as
In ABAQUS/Standard the centrifugal load, Coriolis, and rotary acceleration terms contribute to the “load stiffness matrix.” The centrifugal load term has a symmetric load stiffness matrix,