Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/Explicit
Benefits: You can now prescribe amplitudes using one data pair (two entries) per line for tabular amplitudes and one value per each line for equally spaced defined amplitudes.
Description: For tabular amplitudes, in addition to the old data line format with eight entries per line, you can now specify data in one pair per line: time (or frequency) and amplitude value. There is no required parameter to chose the data line format, but the data lines must be entered consistently for the entire amplitude definition: enter all the data lines as two entries or all the data lines as eight entries.
For equally spaced amplitudes you can now specify one amplitude value per each line, in addition to the old data line format. No parameter is needed to choose between these formats, but the data lines must be entered consistently for the entire amplitude definition: enter all the data lines as one value or all the data lines as eight values.
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