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November 8, 2023 at 2:01 pm
Chris Quan
Ansys Employee

Yes, it is true that EPS is the effective plastic strain. It is an element variable. It is an array.

EPST from your note is a local variable. It is not an array. It is a scalar and has a single value. See the picture below.

User Subroutine "SOLVE_STR_USER_1" is called for every element automatically by Autodyn. EPST is the Effective Plastic Strain for the current element, i.e., EPST = EPS(current element #).

EPST is used to interpolated plastic strain from the input of material hardenning curve (Yield Stress vs Plastic Strain) to obtain the Yield Stress for the current element.