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    3D Orthotropic Elastic Longboard Bamboo Model

    Why don't you just use the "*Engineering constants" option? (Material, elastic, type = engineering constants)
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    E33 strain output for plane stress model

    I think that abaqus does have a plain stress formulation (3 X 3 matrix) but includes a through thickness strain term to account for thickness reduction due to poisson effects: e3 = (-V13/E11)S1 - (V23/E22)S2
  3. mjoosten

    Submitting thousands of jobs

    Hi Calmitude, I am also a new ABAQUS user and am curious why the pre.exe takes so long. I think it is because the input file can contain commands like "*NFILL" so the nodes are not defined in the input file and need to be generated by the pre.exe executable. I would be very interested if this...

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