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Hi, I am not sure how many of you read the abaqus theory manual. If you read the theory manual on the direct cyclic algorithm they mention that the displacement response is a function of time, u(t). My question is how does it account for the displacements in different directions? Are these...

I am sorry I am new to abaqus. Are the CPRESS actually bearing stresses?

I have modeled a plate with bolts on abaqus and I wanted to know how to get the bearing stress in the plate hole. Is there an output to get bearing stress on abaqus?

If I were to use composite layups to set up my laminate is there an easier way to get the stiffness of the laminate?

Basically I am talking about the modulus in the 1,2 and 3 direction. I guess I should not have used the term stiffness.

Sorry if I was not clear enough. Lets say I have a composite for example with different plies stacked up. Since each ply has its own stiffnes (E1,E2,E3) and orthotropic the laminate itself can be estimated with a laminate stiffnes. In this case there will only be 1 set of E1,E2 and E3 for the...

Is there a way to find the global stiffness of the laminate for a given structure? I have defined a panel with sections of orthotropic material. I wanted to know if there is a way to obtain a global stiffnes in a particular direction for a structure with different orthotropic materials and...

Thank you very much.

I created a simple model to test this out. Using a orthotropic material I kept changing the orientation of the material. Based on this simple test I am pretty sure it gave results for E11,E22 and E33 based on the local material orientation. I used unique nodal position to get the output values...

I have a small question on outputs such as E11,E22,E33,S11,S22,S33,U1,U2,U3 etc. Lets say I have use an orthotropic material and have defined the different material orientations. The outputs I mentioned earlier, are they based on the global coordinate system or the local coordinate system that I...

Thank you for taking time to explain to me. I appreciate it. I get a picture of how it works but I need to dig more into it. I want to truly understand how it all adds up. Thanks again for helping.

You are probably talking about iteration. In a direct cylic analysis iteration is where the displacement corrections are affected. Because I am pretty sure that increments are time point in abaqus. At least that is what Abaqus says in its manual. In static analysis then yes increment is pretty...

When you say increment what do you mean? Because from what I read increments are the time points used for the analysis. So if I use an increment size of 0.001, that would mean I have 1000 time points in a cycle.

You are right I am basically confused on how the iterative scheme works. My understanding is that you have a curve for one cycle given an iteration. It continues to iterate until it converges for that cycle. Converges meaning the R and c entries are small. I am mainly confused about the R...

I think I am beginning to picture it now. So for the next iteration how does the force residuals R differ? My understanding is that the displacements u change depending on the correction to displacement c. So how is the R going to change for the next iteration? Technically abaqus is still...