Why does my stress dampen to 0 in a force controlled biaxial compression
Hi,
I am performing a biaxial compression simulation where I have a granular array surrounded by 4 extremely large granules to mimic a wall. In this simulation, I start off by fixing the left and bottom "walls" (big granules) and compress the array by adding a force (fix addforce) to move the top and right wall to compress the system. The force I use is to get a desired pressure in the confined state. Up to here all is good. I get a stress state which has the desired pressure. I add viscosity to dampen out the kinetic energy.