Products: Abaqus/Explicit Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: You can request tie-related nodal field output in Abaqus/Explicit to more easily identify unconstrained slave nodes and visualize the adjustments performed at the slave nodes in your analysis.
Description: The following nodal output variables are now available as field output:
TIEDSTATUS output at nodes will help you identify the slave nodes involved in a tie constraint that were tied successfully and the slave nodes that were not tied (left unconstrained). This output has a value of 2 if the slave node is not tied, 1 if the slave node is tied, and 0 for nodes that do not participate in a tie constraint.
TIEADJUST vector output at slave nodes will help you visualize the adjustment performed at the slave nodes involved in a tie constraint where all tied nodes on the slave surface are moved onto the master surface in the initial configuration without any strain.
Step module: Field output request editor: Output Variables: State/Field/User/Time: TIEDSTATUS and TIEADJUST