help Rec146
ABAQUS total force output to MATLAB
Syntax
#Rec# = Fil2str('*.fil');
#out# = Rec146(#Rec#)
Description
Read total force 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 total force output
is 146 (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 total force results:
...
*FILE FORMAT, ASCII
*NODE FILE
TF
...
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 146 as follows:
Column 1 – Node number.
Column 2 – First component of total force.
Column 3 – Second component of total force.
Column 4 – Etc
where #n# is the number of nodes multiplied by the number of
increments and #m#-1 is the number of components of total forces
per node. If the results file does not contain the desired
output, #out# will be an empty array
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