Exporting only the yarn mesh to Abaqus

[fstig]

Hi

I'm would like to export only the fibre volume mesh to Abaqus and ignore the matrix mesh. The way I tested it now is to import the standard .inp file and just remove the matrix mesh in Abaqus CAE. The problem is that all the removed elements are represented in the discrete field "TEXGENORIENTAIONVECTORS" and this becomes an error when submitting a job. The entries may of-coarse be removed manually in the .ori file, but maybe there is an easier way?

Regards
Fredrik

[joncrookston]

Hi Fredrik, I hope you are well.

I can't answer this precisely, but you should probably have a look at http://texgen.sourceforge.net/index.php ... g_Examples with reference to the section on 'dry fabric simulation'. Note that the files are written and the job submitted by a single command

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deformer.DeformTextile(textile)

and if you want to have access to the input deck you need first to specify a job name using

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deformer.SetSimulationFilesPrefix('jobname')

otherwise the files are cleaned up after the job completes.

I don't believe there is currently an option to write yarn-only meshes from the GUI, but if you want to develop one for incorporation to the code I'm sure that a lot of people would find it useful. I think it could be done using existing functions; it would be mostly a case of putting things together.

Hope this is helpful. All the best,
Jon.