Since springs can be placed only between elements, to place several thousand springs on a 2D long wire shape model, I need to partition my model into thousands elements. Does anyone knows how to partition an element IN Abaqus CAE into desired number of elements, rather than dividing the elements in half and in half and in half until I get a certain number???thank you!
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Use the input file
Dear imarton,
You can mesh the wire first, extract the first end and the second end nodes of all elements that will be created, then define the spring elements into the input file.
George Papazafeiropoulos
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Infrastructure Engineer, Hellenic Air Force
Civil Engineer, M.Sc., Ph.D. candidate
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thanks a lot Mr.
thanks a lot Mr. Papazafeiropoulos