Cohesive Zone Modelling procedure in ABAQUS

1. Create part
2. Material properties
a. Laminate
b. Cohesive
i. mechanical elastic coupled traction
ii. mechanical damage for traction separation quad s
iii. sub-option
3. Section properties
a. Laminate
b. Cohesive
4. Mesh part mesh create part mesh (orphan mesh)
a. Mesh offset solid layers select the cohesive layer total thickness=0mm no.
of layers =1 create the set for new elements
5. Mesh element type select cohesive
a. Element set assign cohesive elements