Assigning material properties to an orphan mesh to an input file
Assigning material properties to an orphan mesh to an input file
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I have an issue trying to assign material properties to an orphan mesh generated from gmsh. In gmsh, I exported the surface, volume, and physical volume information and saved it as an ABAQUS input file (.inp). I made edits to this file and manually defined materials and assigned them to their respective element sets like so:
*SOLID SECTION, ELSET=PhysicalVolume1, MATERIAL=Mat1
*SOLID SECTION, ELSET=PhysicalVolume2, MATERIAL=Mat2
The file loaded fine and there was no problem setting up a simulation. I had no problem assigning boundary conditions to pre-defined surface sets and node sets. After running a job, it tells me that " #### elements have missing property definitions." So I'm a bit confused as to what I a missing.
*SOLID SECTION, ELSET=PhysicalVolume1, MATERIAL=Mat1
*SOLID SECTION, ELSET=PhysicalVolume2, MATERIAL=Mat2
The file loaded fine and there was no problem setting up a simulation. I had no problem assigning boundary conditions to pre-defined surface sets and node sets. After running a job, it tells me that " #### elements have missing property definitions." So I'm a bit confused as to what I a missing.





RE: Assigning material properties to an orphan mesh to an input file
RE: Assigning material properties to an orphan mesh to an input file
RE: Assigning material properties to an orphan mesh to an input file
*ELSET, ELSET=Combined1
Surface1, Surface2, Volume1
*ELSET, ELSET=Combined2
Surface3, Volume2
*SOLID SECTION, ELSET=Combined1, MATERIAL=Mat1
*SOLID SECTION, ELSET=Combined2, MATERIAL=Mat2
I get this error after running this modification, "The area of 33578 elements is zero, small, or negative. Check coordinates or node numbering, or modify the mesh seed. The elements have been identified in element set ErrElemAreaSmallNegZero". I went back to check the .odb file and saw that most of the surface elements were highlighted.
Is assigning material properties even possible to orphan meshes?