I could only export stress at nodal/integration points. But, I want to find the volume average of the stress over the element. I was wondering can elemental stress be obtained directly from ABAQUS?
algorithm which was the base of my proper algorithm for python abaqus features extraction (I attach part of it). You should take into acccount that stresses are determined at integration points, not at the nodes. For viewing them at nodes, abaqus uses an extrapolation algorithm.
Therefore, my advice is to extract it at integration points or at the element centroid (this is the way used on my algorithm).
I hope you'll find it useful, it took some hard work. You'll only need to add the file writing on it.
algorithm which was the base of my proper algorithm for python abaqus features extraction (I attach part of it). You should take into acccount that stresses are determined at integration points, not at the nodes. For viewing them at nodes, abaqus uses an extrapolation algorithm.
Therefore, my advice is to extract it at integration points or at the element centroid (this is the way used on my algorithm).
I hope you'll find it useful, it took some hard work. You'll only need to add the file writing on it.