I modeled vertical stiffness of soil by UEL subroutine of Abaqus. The pipe laid on the seabed and moves up and down due to this stiffness.
For the current step, I can determine the vertical displacements of the pipe at the end of this step.
Force=Ky*u(2)
Now, I’m going to define new stiffness. Actually, when I define a new stiffness in the next step, all calculated displacements from the previous step will be reset and will no longer be continued for the next step. (Actually, in the new defined step, pipe reset its previous displacements and start to move from zero).
Do you have any suggestions to keep remain calculated displacements from the previous step, and continue them in the next step?
Any comments are highly appreciated
Hossein