help Rec104
ABAQUS reaction force output to MATLAB
Syntax
#Rec# = Fil2str('*.fil');
#out# = Rec104(#Rec#)
Description
Read reaction 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 reaction force
output is 104. 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 reaction force results:
...
*FILE FORMAT, ASCII
*NODE FILE
RF
...
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 104 as follows:
Column 1 – Node number.
Column 2 – First component of reaction force.
Column 3 – Second component of reaction force.
Column 4 – Etc
where #n# is the number of nodes multiplied by the number of
increments and #m#-1 is the number of reaction forces per node.
If the results file does not contain the desired output, #out#
will be an empty array
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