13.12 Field output for connectors

Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit Abaqus/CAE

Benefits: You can now request connector field output to the output database, and the results are displayed in Abaqus/CAE during postprocessing as contour plots.

Description: Previously only connector history output was available, but now you can request connector field output for the most commonly used connector output quantities. Orientations at nodes accounting for both nodal rotation and connector orientation are also written to the output database, and they can be visualized in Abaqus/CAE.

The connector output variables available in the Edit Field Output Request dialog box of Abaqus/CAE are shown in Figure 13–7.

Figure 13–7 Connector field output variables.

Abaqus/CAE Usage:

Step module:
    Create Field Output; Domain: Set; Output Variables: Connector

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Manual

“Abaqus/Standard output variable identifiers,” Section 4.2.1
“Abaqus/Explicit output variable identifiers,” Section 4.2.2

Abaqus/CAE User's Manual

“Requesting output from connectors,” Section 23.9
“Displaying connectors in the Visualization module,” Section 23.11
Chapter 42, “Contouring analysis results”