displacement as boundary condition

[mambo5]

hi,

I applied a displacement initial boundary condition on my slab model, say on node 1, -10mm at direction y, meaning to say i want the node 1 of my slab to displace at -10mm in the initial step. then in my loading step, I apply load on the whole slab (at y direction), say 100kN/m2. I got the displacement at node 1 remain unchange after the analysis completed, how could i tell abaqus that, i want node 1 to displace as arcording to whatever load I apply but started from the initial displacement value (-10mm)? please advise.

 

[gurmeet2003]

mambo5,

Instead of using the displacement to move the node, why not place the node in the correct position in the model?

Gurmeet

 

[corus]

One way is to read the deformed shape in from the odb file as a new model and then apply your load to that new model.

corus