Completely new to Abaqus...indentation problem

[ohagan]

I am trying to create a soft tisse indentation problem, I want to use a script and eventually use matlab to invoke the script and diplay the results, I have 3 questions:

1. If I build a model in the the ABAQUS CAE can I somehow transfer the model and all its properties into a script to build the model automatically?

2. How exactly do you define an indentation?, (I want to use a sperical indenter).

3. How can I invoke ABAQUS through matlab?

Thanks in advance.

 

[xerf]

1. Yes, you can write a script using ABAQUS scripting interface that generates automatically the model.

2. You can describe the indenter as a rigid surface and then model the contact interaction with the part subjected to the indentation.

3. If you can run an executable from Matlab then you can invoke ABAQUS too.

 

[rmettier]

3. On a Unix based system, you can call abaqus from the matlab command line, or from inside a function/script with

!abaqus jobname

where 'jobname is obviously the name of the abaqus job you want to run. If called from a script or function, Matlab will wait for Abaqus to temrinate or abort before continuing.