Hi Shery Tomy,

I have to delve into your model in order to help you with the above. Please send me an email with your model attached.

Thanks.

Hi George, How can I separate the results from one column data using indices, I can't understand the structure of the readElementFieldOdb function to extract the stresses with MatLab help? then, I want the stress to calculate the Tsai-Wu criteria, is there a way to extract it by readElementFieldOdb, or another function? And how can I use the Function extractPlyInfo.py in Matlab? actually I want to change the orientation of plies in the loop per each run in Matlab to optimize the angles.

You have to extract the stress results for all plies using the function readElementFieldOdb, and then manually separate the results that correspond to each ply. The current version of Abaqus2Matlab cannot do this automatically.

Hello George, thanks to your answer, I do that in MATLAB and ABAQUS, But I've got some syntax errors, My Problem is , extracting result for each ply in a set, In function readElementFieldOdb we can extract results only for a complete set, not for a ply Separately, how can we extract results for each ply separately?

Hello George, could you please look into this problem? https://abaqus2matlab.wixsite.com/abaqus2matlab/forum/abaqus2matlab-users-forum/problem-with-abaqus2matlab-tool

It'll be very kind of you, if you do.