Abaqus initial condition

[NSW19]

Hi,

I am trying to introduce the stress from a previous job to a new job based on element number. The documentation suggests that the keyword in the input file should be
*initial conditions, type=stress, input=name.inp
I did not find any guidelines regarding how to write the input file for the stress values based on element number. If someone could help I would be grateful. This is explicit analysis and I do not want the stress results from all the elements of previous analysis. That is why I am taking this approach. Thanks in advance.

I tried the following in the external input file,

*Initial conditions, type=stress
element_1, S11, S22, S33, S12, S13, S23

But this gives an error stating ' ***ERROR: in keyword *INITIALCONDITIONS, file "newl2.inp", line 5723: Unknown assembly id 1.'.

I can give one value for all the elements by specifying the element set and one stress value but I do not know how to specify the value for each individual element. Any help is highly appreciated.

 

[FEA way]

Make sure that the specified element IDs correspond to the actual element labels. If the model is defined in terms of part instances, you will have to add the name of the instance before each element number. It might be easier if you export the input file with the "Do not use parts and assemblies in input files" option checked in the model attributes window.