Hi everyone,
As far as I know, the user-defined forces can only be applied to elements (VDLOAD). I could not find in the manual any subroutine to apply user-defined forces to the individual nodes instead of elements. I thought about adapting the VDISP to provide "forces" in the form of incremental displacements/accelerations, but I was hoping that there is some other way to achieve this. On a related note, how about Abaqus Standard?
Thanks!
Hello Andrew,
I think *CLOAD could be used for applying concentrated force. A external python file could be coded to insert the command line including assignments of: the node set, direction of CF (DOF), amplitude of CF into the corresponding input file of Abaqus job. You might also find some other useful optional parameters as well when you check *CLOAD in the keywords reference guide. Besides, amplitude might be customized by user via VUAMP (regarding Abaqus/Explicit analysis) if needed. Hope this could be helpful.
Best regards,
Xiaoyu
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