I am working on reseach of residual stress formation in composite materials. I had created a simulation that analyses the stress creation because of heating during assembly. Now i would like to model a cooling step in a different model with particular stress fields from this first simulation as a predefined field for this cooling simulation.

The predefined stress fields were loaded in the coling simulation from an odb but the analysis is unable to start. It works when i define discrete values instead of loading stresses from an odb file. Can anyone help me on this?