Loading in Abaqus

[G SRI HARSHA]

I am new to abaqus, I have created a beam and i dont know, what is the maximum load it can take, Is there any way to increase the load continuously without giving a fixed value, so that at some load the beam will fail and i will consider it as a maximum load it can take.
Kindly help me how to do this ?

 

[FEA way]

You can define very high load increasing as defined in amplitude and then check the step time when the beam failed. It will correspond to the failure load.

 

[StefBene]

You could try to do a displacement control analysis, increasing the displacement in the centerline until a big one (ex. 50cm) and after plot displ-load curve and find what you search.