In order to use Abaqus Viewer to examine the fiber and matrix failure states generated by Helius PFA, you must request that state variables (SDV) be printed in the Abaqus output (.odb) file.
- Open the Edit Field Output Request dialog box by expanding the Field Output Requests container
in the model tree and double clicking on F-Output-1, or by selecting from the main toolbar and selecting Edit in the dialog box that appears. - Add SDV to the list of Output Variables by checking the SDV box as shown in Define Field Output Requests. The state variables will now be printed in the Abaqus output (.odb) file.
- Specify output at section points 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, 23. The Edit Field Output Request dialog box should now appear as shown below.
- Click OK.
To view results for each ply in the composite layup, section point output must be specified for each ply since the default setting will only output at the top and bottom section points of the layered element. In this tutorial, there are 8 plies with 3 section points per ply for a total of 24 section points. One option is to specify output from only the middle section point for each ply. A second option is to specify output for each section point in the layup. Here, output is specified for the middle section points of each material ply.
