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1 - Conventional Shell
Contents
1 Prerequisites 2 Creating Part & Conditions 3 Selecting Output Variables & Launching the Job 4 Results
fig. representation of the item you will realise with this tutorial: 3D view. Remember that in this tutorial 1.1 you will not design the thickness because it is a conventional shell (2D model).
In this tutorial you will analyze the thin plate (S=100) using a conventional shell model.
Prerequisites
It is necessary to have a basic knowledge of ABAQUS in order to create a part. These knowledges should had been acquired in developing the tutorial #0 and the notions specified in the tutorial #1 main page.
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It is also possible to obtain some selected output variables in a table format which can be further utilized into a third-part postprocessor software (such as Matlab, Excel, Spreadsheet or others..), e.g. for plotting and analyzing results. This can be done by the *El Print command, which writes the selected output variables into the .dat file of the job. Since this additional output can not be defined within the graphical interface of ABAQUS/CAE, a manual modification of the input file is necessary. So, first an input file for the job should be created and subsequently modified within an external editor by including the *El Print command. The modified input file can be directly submitted for analysis, or a new job may be created within ABAQUS/CAE and then submitted from the graphical interface. In the following, a modification of the input file is proposed in order to obtain the strain and stress fields as well as the failure measure variables (collected in CFAILURE) at the mid point of the bent plate. The input file can be written by clicking with the right button on the created job (jobname) and selecting Write Input. Then navigate in the working directory and look for the file jobname.inp. Open this file, go to the end of file and add the following bold rows in the correct position: *Element Output, directions=YES 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 CFAILURE, TSHR *Element Output, directions=YES 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 CFAILURE, TSHR *el print, POSITION=AVERAGED AT NODES, ELSET=1
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 CFAILURE, TSHR *el print, POSITION=AVERAGED AT NODES, ELSET=1 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 CFAILURE, TSHR
** ** HISTORY OUTPUT: H-Output-1 ** *Output, history, variable=PRESELECT *End Step You will use the AVERAGED AT NODES as position option in order to have only one value of the variables for the mid point node (an even number of elements is used along the length, so the mid point of the plate is coincident with a node).
The ELSET option allows the analysis only on the selected elements. To know the central element label, in ABAQUS, select the mesh view and go to the View menu selecting Assembly Display Options. In the Mesh dialog box tick Show elements labels and Show nodal labels. In this case the elements label is 1. Next, the modified input file will be used to create another job which will be launched by the graphical interface. To do so, save with another name the file .inp (e.g., jobname-mod.inp) and exit the text editor. Return in ABAQUS, click with right button on Jobs then select Create. In the dialog box that will appear, set a Name and select Input file as Source, select the modified input file you have created and click Continue. Once finished you can launch the Data-check and Submit the Job.
Results
Once terminated the job you can see the results of analysis by clicking on Results in the right button menu of the submitted job.
The last step that you have to do is the results plot in graphs. Go to the Tools menu and select XY Data then Create. Chose Thickness as Source and Continue. Select Element Nodal as Position and chose a variable from the list (e.g., AZZIT) then shift to the Elements box and set the value to 1 (is the label of considered element) selecting Elements labels as Method . Click Plot.
It will be plotted a graph for each node of the selected element. In this case, the graphs for each node are so similar that they seem overplotted each other. Anyway, enlarging the graph it is possible to see two different plots (fig. 1/2 - node 144 graph in blue, node 2 graph in purple). The nodes 1 graph is behind node 2 one and node 7 graph behind node 144 one. In fact there is no difference in y-axis direction. Now create the other plots selecting all the variables except AZZIT. Select the element one in the element box and click Plot, then Dismiss. You have now plotted all the graphs, but you are interested only in what happens at the middle of the plate, so you can select the node 1 graphs only in the Manager box, selecting XY Data from menu Tools. Select and delete here the node 2, 7 and 144 rows, then select one or more of the remaining lines and click Plot to view their graphs. In the figures from 3 to 8 will be shown the different results plots.