Plane strain / Plane Stress in ABAQUS

[yasin mohammadi]

Hi everyone
I made a two-dimensional model in ABAQUS. I want to define the lateral condition myself, that is, a state between plane strain and plane stress. Does Abacus software have this capability? How?
Thanks for your help

 

[FEA way]

You may have to use the UEL subroutine to create your own element definition but that's a very complex stuff. It might be easier to model the structure as a thin 3D slice and apply proper BCs and other types of constraints (e.g. equation constraints) to enforce the desired behavior.