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Abaqus user element

Submitted by arunsen on

I am working on finite element formulation of thermopiezoelectric shell element. i want to incorporate it in Abaqus software as a project work. i would like to know how to add the new element in abaqus.how can i add? Pls do help

I am not familiar with UEL, but if the state variables (SVARS) are not output in the .odb file then

the only approach is to write a post-processing program. If you want to use CAE for

postprocessing then you should use the ABAQUS Scripring Interface (either Python or C++) to import

the SVARS data into the .odb file as an FieldOutput object.

Fri, 09/21/2007 - 17:47 Permalink

Oops. I posted my comment on the wrong blog.

About UEL, as I said, I am not familiar with this subroutine, but browsing through the documentation I've noticed there's an example at the end of:

ABAQUS User Subroutines Reference Manual  (v6.6) - >1.1.19 UEL User
subroutine to define an element.

and another one in:

ABAQUS Verification Manual (v6.6)   ->4.1.11 UEL

 Best.

Fri, 09/21/2007 - 17:57 Permalink