Hi Farzad Tatar

If you apply hydrostatic pressure of intensity 1 to the outer surface of your structure, then normal force on each view cut must be equal to its area.

Dear Victor J. Аdlucky

Thank you for your insightful and innovative solution. However, It will not let me measure the area "during" the loading although it gives the initial state of the area. Thank you, I think it solves my problem.

Best wishes,

Farzad Tatar

You can import deformed part instance in each ftame from output database. https://abaqus-docs.mit.edu/2017/English/SIMACAECAERefMap/simacae-t-dbsimportpartodb.htm

Yes, it will work, but I have to add another step to apply hydrostatic pressure. Hence, running those consecutive jobs would be time-consuming. I will appreciate it if you have any solutions for that part.

Best regards,

Farzad Tatar

Hello Farzad,

I hope you have solved your problem but I think it could be helpful for other researchers.

A possible way to get the area of view cut it to access the info via a python script.

Once you have your view cut done and suppose that it has been done via an 'X-Plane cut'.

You shoud be ablo toaccess to the following variable:

session.viewports['Viewport: 1'].odbDisplay.viewCuts['X-Plane'].crossSectionalArea

Here Abaqus is storing the value of the cross-section of the cut.

Keep in mind that the values of the area changes if you are in the deformed or in the un-deformed configuration.

I hope it helps.

Regards,

Federico