help Rec27
  ABAQUS section thickness output to MATLAB
  
  Syntax
      #Rec# = Fil2str('*.fil');
      #out# = Rec27(#Rec#)
 
  Description
      Read section thickness 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 section thickness
      output is 27. 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 section thickness results:
          ...
          *FILE FORMAT, ASCII
          *EL FILE
          STH
          ...
      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 1]) is a double array containing the attributes of
          the record key 27 as follows:
          Column  1  –  Current section thickness for membranes and
          finite-strain shells in Abaqus/Standard and for plane stress
          elements, membranes, and all shells in Abaqus/Explicit.
          where #n# is the number of elements multiplied by the number of
          integration points multiplied by the number of increments. If the
          results file does not contain the desired output, #out# will be
          an empty array
 
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      George Papazafeiropoulos
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