I am using Abaqus2Matlab in my research and wondering if there is a way to report nodal outputs for select groups of nodes.
I am performing a Abaqus Standard study on a flexible part. I would like to extract the displacements at all nodes, as well as the reaction force at a single, specific node (a reference point which is kinematically constrained to a region of the model).
I create my reference point and define an assembly nodal set RP_set which contains it.
I understand that if I put the following in the .inp file, I will write out the displacements and reaction forces for all nodes:
*FILE FORMAT, ASCII
*NODE FILE
U, RF
Is it possible to write out the displacements for all nodes, but the reaction forces for the reference point in RP_set only? Something like the following:
*FILE FORMAT, ASCII
*NODE FILE
U
*NODE FILE, NSET = RP_set
RF
Thanks! Appreciate all the work you have put into this package and the community on this website.
Lawrence Smith
University of Colorado Boulder
Thank you for the advice! Again, appreciate all of the work that has gone into this package.
Hi Mr Lawrence Smith,
What you state in your first post is possible with Abaqus2Matlab. Also, the Matlab commands that you use seem correct.
Thanks very much for your consideration!
Best regards
Oh I should add - I am using the following Matlab commands to attempt to extract the results:
Rec = Fil2str('myfile.fil');
disp = Rec101(Rec);
react = Rec104(Rec);