In reply to residual stress and strain definitions (through-thickness) in ABAQUS/Explicit
In reply to residual stress and strain definitions (through-thickness) in ABAQUS/Explicit
Well, since I am defining initial conditions as stresses, is it possible to run a *static step and use to implement the initial conditions and then run the *dynamic, explicit step?
In reply to residual stress and strain definitions (through-thickness) in ABAQUS/Explicit
In Abaqus Standard, you would do it using the user subroutine sigini.f. You cannot use that in Explict. I am not sure if it is possible to do what you want. Sorry.
Michael B. Prime, Los Alamos, New Mexico
http://public.lanl.gov/prime/
I am trying to do the same with beam elements (B21). However, when I try to use the odb file of a static analysis, I get the warning:
"Initial stresses will be read from the output database. This type of initial conditions is supported only for continuum elements, and the initial conditions will be ignored for other element types."
Can anyone suggest a workaround for this?