help Rec88
ABAQUS thermal strain output to MATLAB
Syntax
#Rec# = Fil2str('*.fil');
#out# = Rec88(#Rec#)
Description
Read thermal strain output from the results (*.fil) file generated
from the ABAQUS finite element software. The asterisk (*) is replaced
by the name of the results file. The record key for thermal strain
output is 88 (only in ABAQUS/Standard). See section "Results file
output format" in ABAQUS Analysis User's manual for more details.
The following options with parameters have to be specified in the
ABAQUS input file for the results (*.fil) file to be created and to
contain thermal strain results:
...
*FILE FORMAT, ASCII
*EL FILE
THE
...
NOTE: The results file (*.fil) must be placed in the same directory
with the MATLAB source files in order to be processed.
Input parameters
#Rec# (string) is an one-row string containing the ASCII code of the
ABAQUS results (*.fil) file. It is generated by the function
Fil2str.m.
Output parameters
#out# ([#n# x #m#]) is a double array containing the attributes of
the record key 88 as follows:
Column 1 – First thermal strain component.
Column 2 – Second thermal strain component.
Column 3 – Etc. (See “Elements” in Abaqus Analysis User's
Manual for a definition of the number and type of the components
for the element type).
where #n# is the number of elements multiplied by the number of
integration points multiplied by the number of section points
(for shell, beam, or layered solid elements) multiplied by the
number of increments, and #m# is the number of thermal strain
components of each element. If the results file does not contain
the desired output, #out# will be an empty array
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