Dear George,
My task is to calculate a structural reliability using Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS). The sample size of MCS is 10000, therefore the abaqus is called by matlab for 10000 times. You know, it is very time-consuming. What I am interested in is the minimum displacement of the FEM model, so you can see in Line 37 of my matlab code that I only read .fil. The problem is that Line 23 (i.e. pause (0.01)) takes the majority of the time of my MCS, at least 90%! Do you know how I can do to save that much time? Can I let abaqus just create Inp_file.fil without any other useless files, in order to save time?
With thanks,
Xinpeng Wei
Dear Xinpeng Wei,
Line 23 of your code (i.e. pause (0.01)) takes the majority of the time of the MCS because this time is spent in Abaqus execution. This execution time is not affected by Abaqus2Matlab; only the Abaqus model can be improved in order to reduce this running time.
Best regards!