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export the co-ordinates of the integration points???

Submitted by Gamal on
integration points

Hi my friends,

I want to export both the stresses and the co-ordinates (x,y,z) at the

integration points using Abaqus CAE. I know how to get the stresses at the nodes

(unique nodal ) by using Visulaization module then report then unique nodal. But

when i try to report the stresses at the integration points, i did not find the

co-ordinates at the integration points as one of the output. I find only the

unique nodal.



Thanks alot,

Gamal


Frank Richter



Hello

see manual chapter "4.2.1 Abaqus/Standard output variable identifiers"

section "Element integration point variables"

Geometric quantities

COORD

Coordinates of the integration point for solid elements and rebar. These are the current coordinates if the large-displacement formulation is being used.

.dat: yes    .fil: yes    .odb Field: yes    .odb History: yes  

and likewise for Abaqus Explicit



If you do not use the "large-displacement formulation" you might have to extract the node coordinates and compute the integration point coordinates using the shape functions.

Good luck

Frank

------------------------------------------ Ruhr-University Bochum Germany

Tue, 01/31/2012 - 09:55 Permalink