I am trying to estimate the stiffness from the oil inside a hydraulic system. For a simple piston it is possible to estimate the stiffness using two springs, which gives a total stiffness for the oil as: koil=E1A12/V1+E2A22/V2, where E is the bulk modulus of the oil, A the piston area and V the...
Is it possible to view the beam orientation after it has already been assigned? I know the orientation is shown directly before a direction is assigned, but I would like to view it afterwards without reassigning the orientation.
I am doing a fatigue assessment of a structure under multiaxial loading. The load state for the structure is similar to the one in the picture below. Loads are presumed to be in phase. I am trying to obtain a stress range to estimate the fatigue life using the principal stresses of the FEA.
I...
I am running a static analysis of a structure with multiple load steps. There are multiple contact definitions. In one of the load step, the structure deforms in a way such that a gap occurs between a contact pair. One of these surfaces is latter loaded, but since there is an initial gap the...
I am trying to compute the membrane and bending stresses using shell elements in ABAQUS. I would like to plot the resulting stress distributions. Is it possible to create a custom field output using the values at the top and bottom sections?
I am trying to apply two loads which are frequency dependent in a steady state analysis. The forces are caused by a rotating unbalance:
Fx=m ω2e sin(ωt),
Fy=m ω2e cos(ωt),
where, m is a mass, e the radius, t is time, and ω is the angular velocity. Is there a simple way to do this in ABAQUS?
I have defined a surface in the CAE where one side is positive. I want to obtain the positive normal of this surface using Python scripting. Is it possible to do this in the visualization model using the OdbSet object? I do not manage to find anything in the documentation but it is possible to...
