Determining all elements to a corresponding surface node

[pano086]

Hi,
I am new to Abaqus and python. I want to know which elements belong to a node on the surface. I tried to use for loops and it worked, but I takes way too long. I hope that there is another possibility. I can determine the nodes of the surface, but I cannot assign the corresponding elements to them.

 

[anshulf]

Hi,

A python code can be written for the finding elements corresponding to a node, however it may be complicated. A simpler way to do the same task is by searching the element connectivity (in the inp file) for a particular node number. If you want to do it for a single node, you can do a manual search by using a text search function in any text editor. If you want to do it for a number of nodes, then you can copy the element connectivity matrix in another text file, load it in matlab as a matrix and then find the occurrence of each node number in elements. This way you can find all elements corresponding to a single node.

I hope it solves your problem.

regards,
Anshul