Utilizing ASPECTS for thermomechanical analysis in solids (only)

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Dear ASPECTS users and developers,
Hi! Hope everyone is doing all well. I am user of deal.ii and came to know about ASPECT from certain publications. It caught my eye for it’s advanced capabilities in thermomechanical modelling.
I am working on a project which involves thermomechanical analysis with following basic features so far :

  • Thermoelastoplastic simulations of solids (e.g. metals)

  • Strain rate independence

  • Material properties are temperature dependent

In the light of above mentioned requirements, would it be sufficiently enough to get benifite from ASPECT ? Thank you in advance for your expert opinions.

Best regards,
Muhammad

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Muhammad,
ASPECT is in many regards both a good code to learn from (extensive functionality and good documentation) and a bad one (it’s quite a large code to read through). But for your particular applicatino, it may not be the best one because ASPECT solves a fluid flow problem, not a solid mechanics problem. What is called elastoplastic in fluids is not quite the same as for solids.

Best
Wolfgang

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Thanks Prof. Bangerth for your suggestion and clarification. Question raised in my mind because I was wondering if already thermally coupled momentum conservation equations with certain rheological models in ASPECT might be useful also for elastoplastic in solids too. But It is ok I will look for an alternative in deal.ii.
Best regards,
Muhammad