Why Small Elements Affect PAM-STAMP Explicit Time Steps
You refined a small part of the blank and the calculation became much slower. Why would a local change affect the whole run? For an explicit calculation, time advances in…
Hardening Models and Springback in PAM-STAMP
Two material cards can look similar in a simple tensile description and still give different springback predictions. One reason is how they represent hardening and changes in loading direction. In…
Prepare a PAM-STAMP Report for PowerPoint
You have the forming results. Now someone wants a presentation. Before filling slides with every contour available, decide what you need to explain: the setup, a problem region or the…
Which PAM-STAMP Example Should You Start With?
There are plenty of controls to learn, but following them on one complete example is much easier than starting a different model for every post. For a first practice path,…
Tube Hydroforming in PAM-STAMP: Prepare the Study
Hydroforming expands the tube against the tools, with pressure and end feeding forming part of the process definition. Before entering those inputs, we need to settle what tube arrives at…