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  1. hakanturkmen

    torsional spring in ABAQUS

    It is your element type that's causing the problem. Flexion-torsion always requires an orientation (v6.4 Analysis Manual sect.17.1.6) You could either try a different element type, or create a dummy coordinate system that's the same as the global one.
  2. hakanturkmen

    Beam To Beam Contact

    As far as I know, Abaqus/Standard won't help in making beams contact. If you could switch to Abaqus/Explicit, then it is fairly easy to define a general contact condition which will handle beams (with the friction you like) as well. But locking them with "barbs", I don't know...
  3. hakanturkmen

    Processor?

    We are currently running Abaqus v6.3 on two different platforms, one an Intel Pentium IV, and the other an AMD. For more detailed info you should refer to www.abaqus.com Hakan.
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