Hi all, 

I am trying to add some anisotropy to my model via fibers. These fibers 
would only be active in tension and have different orientations depending 
on spatial location in the model. My plan of attack was to simply store and 
extra value at the quadrature points that had a direction representing the 
fiber and update directions after each time step. (is this a good way to go 
about doing that). I see a lot of papers doing fiber models in ABAQUS or 
COMSOL, but I never see any details on how to do it so I am guessing it is 
trivial. 

Then I stumbled upon https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2020.106334 which 
uses dealii to implement a fiber model that has two grids and some sort of 
junction between the grid representing the bulk material and one presenting 
the fiber. The formulation seemed way more involved than what I was going 
to try. 

Am I making a gross simplification in my proposed approach. 

Matt



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