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Thanks! seems to be the correct one!

Hi all, I think the title says it all but, I know that one can use CSTATUS to detect whether or not elements are in contract. But I was wondering if there is variable/method in Abaqus to extract the surface area in contact over elements with a CSTATUS other than 'not in contact'. Thanks a lot...

One more question: I added the keyword. Nothing happens regardless of the value I assign to it. I removed the cavity pressure BC. Additionally, how can I assign to it an amplitude (added volume rate)?

I see that it is still not supported in CAE (which is not a problem but why I missed it). so much. Helped a lot!

Thanks. Any chance you would remember the keyword? I tried fluid expansion but that didnt work.

Dear all, I would like to model a closed cavity with incompressible hydrostatic fluid inside. The cavity is deformed in the interaction between the internal fluid being which is increased in volume by adding new water (at a known rate) and the external elastic interactions. The pressure is...

Hi, Dear colleagues and co-enthusiasts! I am relatively new to Solidworks. So, apologies for my ignorance in advance. My questions is that, I have made a surface model in Solidworks using lofted surfaces option. I want to import this into Abaqus as shell and use 3D shell elements for it...

Thanks IceBreakerSours and StefCon for your replies and contribution to understand these topics for me. Although the answers actually brought me with more questions than answers. I will also dig in more and will update here of my findings...

Hi All, I am new to considering dynamics of fluids in a model. I am learning of the ways Abaqus can handle fluid-solid interaction. By fluid I definitely dont mean hydrostatic as that can be handled in Abaqus/Standard. I already have practiced a few examples in Eulerian-Lagrangian domain...

Give assign-->material orientation-->datum coordinates a try.

Hello everybody, I am new to Abaqus CEL. I am modeling a simple cylindrical container under pressure that contains an incompressible fluid with a pressure above the external pressure. Then I use damage evolution to get a progressive crack (elastic) in the container and I want to see how fluid...

Dear DrBwts Thanks for your comment.

Hello all, I am a somewhat experienced Abaqus user but utterly new to XFEM or damage mechanics in general. My goal is to model rupture of a pressurized membrane. For that I decided to use XFEM capability of Abaqus. I have managed to make a simple model of a plate rupture under axial loading...