46910: Advanced finite element

simulations using Abaqus

Lars P. Mikkelsen
DTU Wind Energy

Topic 3b: Box-scripting

Scripting of square box model
Build a script version of box model
• Part: 2D, planar
– Size 1x1x1 • Mesh control
– Sets: x0,x1,y0,y1,xy0 – Structured, Quad
• Material: Linear elastic, isotropic • Element type (Quad)
– E=200.000MPa, ν=0.3 – Quadratic, full integration
• Section: Solid, Homogeneous • Seeds: 1x1
– Thickness = 1 • Mesh the instance
• Assign section to part
• Field output
• Assembly of part to instance
– E, S, U
– Dependent (mesh on part)
• History output
• Step: General Static Analysis,
– Nlgeom: Off – x1: u1, RF1
• BC: Initial • Job: IsoElastic
– x0: u1=0
– xy0: u2=0 • LINK to build up demo
• BC: Step-1 – https://www.youtube.com/wa
– x1: u1=0.01 tch?v=c1tXGHjvGVo

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Step-by-step
• Before starting input the following line
– session.journalOptions.setValues(replayGeometry=COORDINATE,
recoverGeometry=COORDINATE)

• Follow the instructions on the previous slide and build up the model. End
with saving the model to a cae-file and look at the content of the jnl-file
using an text-editor e.g. the open source editor notepad++.
• Click e.g. the save bottom between each element in the build up in order
to be able to split up the part in the script
• Build up the script and make clean up during the scripting

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First element in the script: Square box

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Build a script for square box using notepad++

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Structured script

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 Structured script with parameters

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 Use “print()” to check content of variables

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Define
functions

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Move functions to separate file

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Add set names to part
Run this first
session.journalOptions.setValues(replayGeometry=COORDINATE,
recoverGeometry=COORDINATE)
Then this is coming from a set-name definition

Which can be change to this

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Defined as set-naming function

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Complete script (1/2)

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Complete script (2/2)

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Functions

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Post-processing and output

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Post processing as a separate rutine
Remember to include the top:

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 How to start
• Make an empty cae-file and click on that. Thereby, from abaqus import *
Abaqus will use that folder as the working folder and
from abaqusConstants import *
save all files there
from part import *
• Make an empty py-file and add the lines shown to the
right
from material import *
from section import *
• Run the following command in the scripting part of
the Abaqus GUI window in order to get coordinates from assembly import *
out from the click operations from step import *
– session.journalOptions.setValues(replayGeometr from interaction import *
y=COORDINATE, from load import *
recoverGeometry=COORDINATE) from mesh import *
• Define the following parameter and start building up from optimization import *
the model replacing “mdb.models(‘xxx’)” with from job import *
modelObj from sketch import *
– NameModel=‘NewModelName' from visualization import *
– modelObj = mdb.Model(name=NameModel) from connectorBehavior import *

• From the demo video in the link to the right LINK to demo video on starting
note that “model-1” is not changed. Will make up a script. See this video before
it easier to reset and run the script multiple starting
times. https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=VMxSzdtpzJg
• See the content and run the start-up script
Box00PreProcesssStart.py
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