Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit
Benefits: Support for reading scalar nodal output variables from previous Abaqus analyses into predefined field variables makes it easier for you to sequentially include the effects of multiple fields (i.e., multiphysics) in Abaqus analyses.
Description: You can now initialize field variables with temperatures (NT), normalized concentrations (NNC), and electric potentials (EPOT) stored as nodal output on an output database from a previous analysis.
In Abaqus/Standard you can also use these output variables to define the time history of field variables during a subsequent analysis. This capability enables new sequential workflows. For example, you can perform a sequential thermal-moisture-stress analysis as follows:
Run a heat transfer analysis.
Drive a mass diffusion analysis using temperatures stored from the heat transfer analysis from Step 1.
Drive a stress/displacement analysis using nodal temperatures from Step 1 and normalized concentrations, stored as a field variable, from Step 2.
These new features also support the mapping of these output variables onto predefined fields between dissimilar meshes.
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