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User defined failure criteria in abaqus

Submitted by sathvik_14 on

I am an Aerospace Engineer working at Advanced Composite Division of National Aerospace Laboratory, Bangalore.

I use Abaqus for stress analysis of composite structures.

Abaqus has five inbuilt failure
criteria for composite materials(Tsai-Hill, Tsai-WU etc.) whose contour
plots are shown by requesting output of a field variable called
CFAILURE.

I would like to know if it is
possible to request a contour plot of  a user-defined failure criteria
(which is not inbuilt in abaqus).