Hello all,
I want to perform several analyses successively in Abaqus, in each analysis - except the initial one - I should update the plastic strain components from the results calculated in the previous analysis (extracted from .odb files).
I Know how to initialize plastic strain components in the .inp file using the keyword : *Initial Conditions, type=PLASTIC STRAIN, for a simple analysis but I want to automate the process using python scripting.
Any ideas or help are highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Best regards,
I think the simplest would be to name the analysis files sequentially, like output1.odb, output2.odb, etc. then when you write the input file just create a string with a for loop that refers to the .odb.
To get the syntax, just record a macro when you set up the 2. run, then you will see how it can be done.
Best regards
David
Dear Mohamed-Lemine Baba Hmoudy
It is so easy man, my suggestion is to generate the needed .inp files firstly, for this, python has great libraries that can be helpful to generate such txt files (inp is a txt file actually which is saved in inp format "so tricky :)". Python again has executable codes to run Abaqus and read the following odb files.
Useful links:
(1)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52723946/python-code-to-automate-abaqus-run-script
(2)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39399635/interacting-python-and-abaqus/40007983
Thanks to all for your response I solved the problem using *INCLUDE input=external_file
Best regards
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