Product: Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: When defining pressure loads, you can choose the new total force option for the load distribution. This allows you to simply enter the total magnitude of pressure applied over the surface. In previous releases, using the uniform distribution option, it was necessary to query the faces of the surface to find the total area and then divide the total force by the surface area. With the new total force option, you can simply enter the total magnitude of pressure applied over the entire surface.
Description: When modeling a pressure load, you usually know the total force that will be applied to a face or surface of the model. In previous releases of Abaqus/CAE, this number had to be divided by the surface area before entering it into the Magnitude field of the Edit Load dialog box (using the existing Uniform option for Distribution). Now, with the Total Force option (shown in Figure 9–3) you can directly enter the total magnitude of the pressure.
Load module: LoadCreate; Category: Mechanical; Type: Pressure; select surfaces; Distribution: Total Force
