I am trying to construct the existing residual stress and strain field, which has been obtained in the previous themal-elastic-plastic analysis in a structure into Abaqus V.6.5 so that the influence of post heat treatment and restrain conditions on the distortion can be analyzed. I tried to use INITIAL CONDITIONS: TYPE=TEMPERATURE, FILE=filename...to add the temperature field, but I don't know how I can add the residual stress field as the initial coniditon. Does anyone know how to do this ?!!.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Best regards
Hiton