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I would like to clear something up please, sorry if this is basic question. when selecting the Field Output requests, CSTRESS (Contact Stress) can be selected, however when viewing the results CSTRESS does not seem to be available? Only CPRESS is available, is CSTRESS the same as CPRESS...

Hello all, I would really appreciate some advice. Please find attached an image of a model I am working on. I have attached an cross section image of the file called IMAGE_1 at http://my.engineering.com/pg/file/OptiEng. This is a 3D ball and socket joint analysis, with an initial clearance...

Hello all, I am trying to mate the exterior ball surface to the internal surface of the cup in the pelvis. I have tried all sorts but had no success. I have tried creating reference points and also different mating options but need some help. Can anyone offer any advice? I am using solidworks...

Hello all, has anyone used abaqus 6.10? Is this an automatic update from Simulia or are there additional costs involved? I here it has a multiphyics platform which would be very useful, see new below: http://www.simulia.com/news/pr_100524_DSS.html

Hello all, I am a little confused about Abaqus ALE adaptive meshing, my model is done using abaqus explicit (dynamic) using ALE Adaptive Mesh Domain option in the Step Module. I understood this to be a technique to improve the quality of the mesh where it is required. However, looking at the...

Hello all, I am new to using subroutines and would really appreciate some help. I am trying to submit this step in the sequence of input files (with a user subroutine): "abaqus job=treadwear_wear_straight user=treadwear oldjob=treadwear_roll" I recieve an error message say: "Abaqus error...

Hello All, I am trying to select a surface not visible in the viewport. Dispite trying various views and "Select From Interior Entities" tool. I am still struggling with this. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Hello all, I have two components in contact, STEP 1: I would like to apply a displacment to a suface on component 1 to allow this to contact with component 2. STEP 2: I am then trying to slide one component other the other by applying a rotation to component 1. I tried created a coupling...

I have two cylindrical solid shapes in contact with a uniaxial load compressing them together. Is there anyway I can compress them together without constraining the cylinders in x direction (i.e. allowing the shapes to expand in the x direction during compression. I have tried using coupling...

Evening all, Has anyone had any experience modelling general wear (and 3rd body abrasive wear) in abaqus between two surfaces in contact passing over one another? I have seen some researchers creating a model running a number of cycles (e.g. 1 million), then assessing the deformation/wear...

Hello all, Can anyone offer advice on efficient ways of partioning a complex 3D component to allow for hex meshing in abaqus 6.9. At the moment I am manually breaking down to area into smaller portions, but this is quite time consuming. I have tried sketching a grid onto a face, but when I...

Hi, Sorry for this being quite a simple question, but I can't seem to find the tool on abaqus 6.9 for highlighting the max stress on the part. Can anyone help. Thanks

Hi, For a particular problem, I am resulting to using quadratic tet meshing due to the geometry of my model becoming is likely to become more complex through optimisation, and partioning may become inefficient. However, I am quite concerned about the accuracy of the results (see attached)...

Hello all, Apart from the NLGEOM option in the step module are there any other options in Abaqus to consider non-linearities? Thanks

Hello All, I have Fx, Fy and Fz loads (in newtons) against time (in seconds) and need to load a component using this data. I am used to defining loads the standard way in Abaqus and never applied loads from this form before. Each cylce is around 1.5s long so would also look to run this for...

Hello all, Quick question, if I create a model in solidworks in 'mm' and import to abaqus, does the model then import in 'mm' and is there anywhere I need to specify this when I import geometry? I also noticed that if I change the same solidworks model units to 'm' instead of 'mm' before I...

Hello All, Does anyone have any experience or have an efficient process set-up between solidworks and abaqus to iterates designs after an analysis (like design optimisation)? I could do this the manual way, i.e. create the CAD model in solidworks, import to abaqus, pre-process, run an...

Does anyone have any experience modelling wear in Abaqus, e.g. surface profiles, debris generation and volume lost after 5 million cycles? I have read some papers published this but wondered how much work is really involved and if this is something that abaqus is able to handle? Thanks

Hello, I wondered if any knows why my 2-D analytical rigid shell becomes a tube after running the analysis and would this affect my results? See picture attached

Hello all, I need to edit a simple sketch, but when I use the edit dimension tool in sketcher, it changes the dimension bar, but not the actual sketch. What am I doing wrong, sorry I know this should be a simple problem to fix. I am used to the ease of editing dimensions in CAD. Thanks OptiEng.