cold-formed steel

Hi all,

I'm trying to create a full-scale truss for a static loading simulation using Abaqus.
I wanted to use a Python script to do this, but I am not very experienced with this language or the Abaqus methods.

The members forming the truss are cee sections. However, at the ends of the cee sections I want to create an extruded cut

Hello there!

I am fairly new to ABAQUS but I have been trying to model several experimental set-ups on cold-formed steel beams. I intend to obtain both the elastic buckling critical modes (*buckle analysis), as well as the load parameter corresponding to failure, which i first modelled through a NLGEOM analysis (*STEP, NLGEOM, INC=xxx/*STATIC, RIKS).