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Accessing external concentrated load values

Accessing external concentrated load values

Accessing external concentrated load values

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I'm wondering if it is possible to access the value of an external imposed load from a UEL fortran file during an increment of the Riks type loading. I can see that it is possible to access the current magnitude of distributed load and the current increment of the distributed load active on an element from the variables DDLMAG and ADLMAG. However I am using concentrated loads only. Any experience in this area would very helpful. Thanks for your time.

RE: Accessing external concentrated load values

You can share data between various subroutines using COMMON blocks.

RE: Accessing external concentrated load values

(OP)
That makes sense if I already had access to the external load from another subroutine.  However, it is within the abaqus code/software that the load is incremented.  Any idea how to access it initially from Abaqus?

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