Currently I am working with a unique actuator which under the simplest explanation is like a small rope which we can control the contraction of. This actuator can easily be cast in flexible polymers and then used to control the shape/motion of the cast structure. In the past the FE models have...
I currently have a model which applies a varying surface pressure based on a analytic field which varies in all three directions. I would like to apply a load in Step-1 then in Step-2 have the model update the surface pressures based on the new deflected coordinates.
Currently I have the...
I need to be able to model pressure loads on a surface which change with displacement. As a simple example imagine a cantilever beam with tip load which does not change pushing down. This motion is resisted by a pressure load on the bottom surface which is a function of displacement in the...
Been having an issue solving this for a while. I need to find the weight of my structure. I have included the density of all materials. The model is a 2D plane strain model. When I used .inp files for my studies I would load the nodes and element connectivity matrix in Matlab, find the area of...
I have a 2D model made using CPE8 and CPE6 elements in a non-linear analysis. The model was running fine, but before I moved any further I wanted to do a mesh conv study. What I found I can't explain. Attached is a plot with the X axis being mesh seed size (finer mesh to the left courser to the...
Everything I find about finding mass just says "use the query tool", but I am trying to do this with .inp files and read the mass from the .dat file in a completely automated system.
Any thoughts?
I will describe this problem using some simple geometry though the actual model is more complicated. The problem is limited to 2D planar. Ultimately this will be a shape optimization problem, but right now I just want to do a parameter study.
--Setup
I have a square plate with a circular region...
I am new to Abaqus but have experince in Ansys. I would like to use MATLAB to generate some sort of input (.py or .inp) for Abaqus to run. I plan to use MATLAB to change parameters and optimize based on results. What I am getting lost in is I keep seeing stuff about "scripting" which references...
