Toward realization of computational homogenization in practice

We present a computational homogenization approach for linear and non‐linear solid mechanics problems, which is fully compatible with conventional finite element code architecture. A seamless implementation in ABAQUS is presented including Python script, validation problems and a web‐link where script files, user‐defined subroutines and input files can be accessed. For linear problems, we demonstrate how to utilize ABAQUS existing facilities to develop analysis attributes required for solving a unit‐cell problem. For non‐linear problems, a Python script invoked by a coarse‐scale stress update procedure is introduced to carry out the scale bridging. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (i) to motivate practitioners to adopt the computational homogenization as an integral part of their analysis and design process; and (ii) to encourage commercial code vendors to seamlessly integrate the architectures proposed in their legacy codes.