Creating a large number of wire elements in abaqus
Creating a large number of wire elements in abaqus
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I'm currently trying to model the interaction of steel reinforcement with concrete beam. I'm using translator connectors between the rebar and concrete slab to simulate bond-slip effect. My problem now is that I need to create a large number of wire features for those translator connectors. So far, the only way I've been able to create wires is by manually connecting the nodes of the rebar to the nodes of the concrete. This is very time consuming on bigger models and I was wondering if there is a faster way of doing this.
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RE: Creating a large number of wire elements in abaqus
Check out learning abaqus scripting in an hour (http://softroboticstoolkit.com/files/sorotoolkit/f...)
You certainly won't be an expert after an hour but it is a start, after that go checkout the Abaqus documentation on scripting.
Also you can follow along with what CAE is doing in the way of python scripts by taking a look at the .jnl or for more detail the .rpy files that go along with your .cae file. If you don't have a good text editor I suggest Notepad++, make sure to set the language to python.
RE: Creating a large number of wire elements in abaqus
I would recommend getting familiar with standalone Python by spending a few hours on the basics before moving on to studying Python scripting for Abaqus - in the documentation or the recommendations above. IDLE is a good GUI based interpreter for Python (available from python.org).
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