MCalibration Strain Control

[@daviddejong2756]

So... is it inherently wrong to apply "Strain Control (tension)" to a thicker specimen? We use ASTM D638 Type I dog bone specimens in our tensile testing, which I assume qualifies as "thick". Our material models tend to overpredict the amount of hysteresis during cycling and I'm trying to pin down the source of the discrepancy. I realize that I can try to recalibrate using this nondefault setting to see if it correlates better, but I don't want to go down that road if it is inherently wrong.

[@valeryanpilov2602]

There cannot be a 100% ready-made universal recipe the mentioned possibilities of the program reflect only two boundary cases, but naturally do not take into account the intermediate diversity.... The meaning of the experimental work is precisely to obtain the most useful (plausible) results from “simple” experiments for describing the behavior of the material under “complex” loading conditions.

[@valeryanpilov2602]

Thanks for the information about the new features of the program.