Additional instructions for Geotechnical Analysis coursework To create a job that you can solve using Abaqus, go to Job

in the Module list and then click on the Create Job icon in the toolbox and follow the instructions, see below.

After you have created the job use the job manager to the right of create job to write the input file, see below. Before you do this make sure you have changed your working directory to your U drive.

Now you need to edit the inp file to define an element set immediately below after End Assembly see below *End Assembly ** *Elset, elset=soil, internal, instance=Part-6-1 1, 309, 1 ** ** MATERIALS Where soil is the name of the element set, Part-6-1 is the instance for the merged mesh that you are using for the analysis and 1, 309, 1 defines elements 1 to 309 in steps of 1 which for this mesh is all the soil elements You also need to add the following to run the in situ stress check in the Geostatic Step-1. This placed after the Boundary conditions and before Step-1 ** *initial conditions, type=stress, geostatic soil,-437.5,0,0,25,1,1 ** ** ---------------------------------------------------------------** ** STEP: Step-1

PLEASE NOTE the vertical stress at the base of the mesh should be defined assuming tension positive and therefore is -437.5 at a y-coordinate of 0, the stress is 0 at a y-coordinate of 25. Ko is defined as 1 for the ratio between the vertical stress and both horizontal stresses.

Now you can run the analysis from the Abaqus command prompt. Access this from the start menu. In the command prompt, go to the directory where the inp file is located (cd directory) and type Abaqus, when prompted for the Identifier type in the part of the file name before .inp.

A number of files are created as the analysis runs. The .msg file contains information on how the analysis proceeded. You can open this with Notepad. If all has gone well, the analysis will have stopped after a substantial number of increments in Step 4. It will have produced an odb file which contains the output from the analysis. You can open this file in the Abaqus CAE program and look at your results in the visualization module.