What ABAQUS does when embed 3D beam element not truss element to 3D solid elements?

Hi dear Scholars: What ABAQUS does when embed 3D beam element not truss element to 3D solid elements? For my research, I need to use beam elements to bear bending moment when embedded to 3d...

31 December 2017 3,415 1 View

How to apply displacement control with eccentricity to load the specimen eccentrically?

Hi Friends here: I am using Riks to modelling stability of a concrete prism, and need load in displacement control at certain eccentricity, I did well in concentric loading with a rigid body and...

10 November 2017 5,117 5 View

How to apply displacement control under this situation?

31 December 2015 3,338 5 View

How to apply pressure with different values along the axial direction of the bar?

Hi all friends: I am modelling a round bar under axial compression, and want to impose pressure to the body through out the lateral surface, and I want the magnitude of the pressure varies along...

31 December 2015 4,103 5 View

How to open a NODE FILE output in abaqus?

Dear all: I recently applied eigenvalue buckling analysis and edited the input file to get a Node file, and it successfully generated the file, but I cannot find a proper way to open it, could...

31 December 2015 9,253 2 View

What I should do when the critical buckling load does not make sense in ABAQUS ?

Dear friends here: Thanks for your reply to my previous questions, and I learnt really a lot from this forum, thanks everyone who helped me, May all the things goes well on you! Now, I found a...

31 December 2015 8,183 12 View

Does anyone know how abaqus will do when I set axial load to both ends to a bar?

Dear all mates: I recently had a talk to someone, and was told a very surprise opinion that If for a bar, theoretically we want to apply compressive pressure to both ends as axial compressive...

31 December 2015 3,159 3 View

Can any one tell me why I apply compressive load, but the structure was stretched?

Dear all: I apply ABAQUS to model a steel bar under compressive load, and use displacement control, but the result showed that at the beginning it was compressed, but later on, it was stretched...

31 December 2015 4,873 7 View

Riks in ABAQUS: Is this the forth stopping criteria for Riks?

Hi all friends here: I am a new researcher and employ ABAQUS to analyse steel bar buckling through Riks algorithm, and concerning the stopping criteria, I want to ask a question. Since when we...

11 December 2015 3,303 3 View

About ABAQUS Riks Load proportionality factor, can anyone help me?

Hi all: I got a tough problem about ABAQUS Riks, in the stopping criteria, I was asked to define the Maximum load proportionality factor. I know that the load proportionality factor was used to...

11 December 2015 2,854 8 View

How to define and get results (stresses) for certain points of a model in abaqus, using python? When the size of the model changes?

I want to do a parameter study of a aixsymmetric cylinder in Abaqus. I want to create several jobs where I get the stresses for 3 different points in my model. These points are defined. I wrote a...

01 March 2021 10,078 1 View

LOAD DISPLACEMENT CURVES Stiffness increasing in ANSYS non linear analysis. HOW CAN I CORRECT IT?

Hi. I am doing non linear FE analysis using a new material beam under flexural 2 point loading using ANSYS. I have defined a bilinear material model. The solution has converged. In results I am...

01 March 2021 9,911 3 View

Why the results when using wall thickness and when using shell conduction are different in ansys fluent?

Actually, I am running cfd simulation for a heat exchanger which has two fluids one hot and other one is cold fluid. there is a solid domain between them, which I removed and instead I have used...

01 March 2021 9,537 2 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

How much pressure we can reduce at the outlet to avoid Reverse Flow?

I am simulating Heat Exchanger. I have tried and tested all the methods to resolve this issue from the internet like refining mesh, improving skewness and orthogonal quality ,extending outlet to...

01 March 2021 6,985 3 View

Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS?

I need to model masonry and reinforced concrete minarets for my MSc thesis. Which one is easier and better at modeling slender masonry structures? ANSYS or ABAQUS? (Or any other program for just...

01 March 2021 736 3 View

How to assign different material properties to each element in Abaqus ?

Hello, I am writing a python script to generate my model and write the input file. The problem is I have 1000 elements in my mesh and I want to assign different material properties to each...

01 March 2021 9,511 3 View

How to define tie constraint between rigid body and another part in dynamic explicit model of Abaqus?

Hi dear researchers I connected a rigid body into the part of my structure by tie constraint and then I added displacement to rigid body, in static general step every thing is fine and these two...

28 February 2021 3,442 2 View

Is anyone familiar with the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) ?

I would like to get more information on the cyclic compressive fatigue testing (BS EN 12697 - 25) which is typically done for bituminous material in pavement design. Any one can advise on the...

28 February 2021 2,004 3 View

How to modify Johnson cook equation in ABAQUS?

I wanted to add an extra parameter to the existing Johnson cook equation in the ABAQUS simulation. How to add those extra parameters. Ref: A modified Johnson-Cook material model with strain...

28 February 2021 4,841 3 View