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Extracting boundary conditions from output database (odb) file using ABAQUS scripting

Hi,

I am familiar with abaqus python scripting to create odb files and to extract nodal data from an output database (odb) file in ABAQUS. I would like to know whether it is possible at all, to extract the boundary conditions from an odb file. I guess that the boundary conditions are not stored in an odb file. But I am not sure. Any help in this regard ??

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Hi Suman,

You may have a look into the section 8.16 of the Abaqus Scripting Reference Manual.

regards

asim

Thanks, but I had already done that. No hope till now.

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Dear Suman:

Did you finally find out how to solve this problem? I have the same problem as you had. There is a way to search between nodal displacement and pick those nodal DOFs that have zero values as boundary condition DOFs, but I don't know if this is a god idea or not?

 

Regards,

Malekan

Hi Malekan, 

No I couldn't find any solution. What you are suggessting will be applicable only for displacement boundary conditions at a fixed boundary. However, that could be one way of doing it. 

Thanks.

Suman

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