I am doing cold-formed related FE modelling. I want to investigate the effect of residual stress on the capacity of my section. How can i include residual stress in ABAQUS modelling?
ABAQUS uses the initial stresses specified by the user (*INITIAL CONDITIONS, TYPE=STRESS, Type) as an initial guess. By this you can incorporate the residual stresses.
Not sure on abaqus, But i have some experience on mapping. Different approach can be followed with different software's. If, you would like to integrate two different software's (forging+structural) you should understand the structural software format for mapping for example: ANSYS do have separate file format to use inistate.