Record X-Y plots in special nodes in different analyses

[ab110]

Hi everyone,

Would you please answer my Three questions as below?

•I am using ABAQUS in some simulations, I just want to change the boundary conditions in these analyses and compare the results. How can I use a procedure in ABAQUS so that I don’t have to select the nodes to plot X-Y data in different analyses and when I choose that procedure, ABAQUS follows the same method in different analyses to record the X-Y plots?
•How can I change the number of CPUs in ABAQUS? I am running the simulations, but only 50% of CPU capacity of my computer is being used.
•How can I put different simulations in a queue so that a job starts when the previous one finished.


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[Dave442]

Hi,

1) I think you could probably write a script to automatically post-process your results. Have a look through the scripting manual in the documentation, it has some examples.

2) Are you using Abaqus/CAE? If so you can specify the number of CPUs to be used when you create a job by looking under the parallelization tab. You will need extra analysis tokens to use extra CPUs though. I think it works out as 5 tokens for each job and 1 token for each extra CPU:

1 job 1 CPU = 5 tokens
1 job 2 CPUs = 6
1 job 3 CPUs = 7
etc..

3) Again if you are using Abaqus/CAE you can create multiple jobs and specify individual submit times. Alternatively, you can submit all jobs and, depending on your resources, they will either all activate at once or activate one after each other as analysis tokens become available.

Good luck,
Dave

 

[ab110]

Thanks Dave,