Can I give a name to state variables in the contour legend in ABAQUS? 1

[Shufen]

Fellow researchers,

I am carrying out a heat treatment simulation to study phase transformation in ABAQUS. I have written the UMAT subroutine and assigned the volume fraction of each phase as state variables. I can see the see the contour of the state variables giving me information about the distribution of the phase fractions. The thing is I want to change the name of the legend. For example,if STATEV(2) represents the volume fraction of Martensite, then I would like to see Martensite in the legend of the contour plot and not STATEV(2). Is this possible? If so, please let me know.

Regards
Shufen

 

[Dave442]

In Abaqus/Viewer you can create a new field output from existing output and name it whatever you want.

In your case the new variable would just be equal to STATEV(2). Would that work?

 

[Shufen]

Hello Dave442

thank you replying to my query. Yes, that would exactly suffice my requirement. However, can you please guide me through it? I am in the visualization module and I have browsed through the view option in the toolbar but I can't find any tell-tale signs of anything. Can you please elaborate the path of the options. Thank you again.

Regards
Shufen

 

[Dave442]

Yeah no bother - In Abaqus/Viewer select Tools -> Create Field Output

There is a section in the Abaqus/CAE Users Guide describing the options from there:
Abaqus/CAE Users Guide -> Viewing Results -> Selecting model data and analysis results to plot -> Creating new field output

 

[Shufen]

Thank you Dave. This was very helpful.

 

[Dave442]

No problem, the new field output is created in a session step.

So if you want to plot the STATEEV(2) contour on the deformed mesh I think you will have to create a second field output for the displacements too.

 

[akabarten]

Hi

You can define name and description for each state variable.

**
*DEPVAR
** number of variables
 3
** variables list
 1, outputKey1, outputDescription1
 2, outputKey2, outputDescription2
 3, outputKey3, outputDescription3
**

Bartosz

VIM filetype plugin for Abaqus

https://github.com/gradzikb/vim-abaqus

 

[Shufen]

@akabarten

Wow, this was really cool. Thank you so much.

Regards
Shufen

 

[Dave442]

I didn't realize you could assign a name/description for state variables - thanks for sharing Bartosz!