I'm trying to run an optimization in Abaqus for a submodel with no luck, jobs are not being create for submission. Is this even possible? or is Abaqus limited to do Opt. for the model itself rather than a Submodel?
Thank you in advance
Sadik Omairey it seems that submodeling and substructures are allowed for optimization in Abaqus through the Tosca optimization suite, but as far as I know optimization processes which involve submodels cannot be performed using Abaqus only. Another alternative could be to use third-party programming software, e.g.Matlab, Python, etc., for optimization purposes, which may give you more freedom over controlling the Abaqus model and its submodel(s).
Dear Sadik Omairey
We did optimisation using Abaqus and python scripting in a recent publication,
specifically we used the SciPy optimize package:
Article Characterisation of slip and twin activity using digital ima...
Feel free to contact me if you need more information.
Best Regards,
Nicolò Grilli
National University of Singapore
Nicolò Grilli How did you connect Abaqus and scipy.optimize?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/FEA-solver-as-a-black-box-for-optimization
As a very good example, you can find a successful implementation of bidirectional evolutionary structural optimization (BESO) which is implemented in Python and connected to ABAQUS in the following paper by professor Mike Xie:
Article A simple and compact Python code for complex 3D topology optimization
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