help Rec21
ABAQUS total strain output to MATLAB
Syntax
#Rec# = Fil2str('*.fil');
#out# = Rec21(#Rec#)
Description
Read 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 strain output is 21. 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 strain results:
...
*FILE FORMAT, ASCII
*EL FILE
E
...
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 21 as follows:
Column 1 – First strain component.
Column 2 – Second strain component.
Column 3 – Etc. (See “Elements” in Abaqus Analysis User's
Manual for a description of the components for a given 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 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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