[Geoqus] earth stress field

Tobias Lau Tobias.Lau at uni-jena.de
Wed Jul 19 15:26:07 CEST 2006


Hi Gabriele,

sadly my knowledge about python is quite small jet, but I'm trying to improve
it. So I don't have any script for the horizontal stress right now (for this I
used CAE) but when I finished writing one I will gladly accept your offer and
send it to you.

Cheers,
Tobias

Zitat von Gabriele Morra <gabriele.morra at erdw.ethz.ch>:

> Hi Tobias,
>   for my experience, using abaqus python for post-processing is quite
> comfortable, while not for preprocessing. Maybe it would be easier to
> write an input file directly (also in an automatic way using a python
> script) or using abaqus CAE. If you send the script, anyway, I can
> have a look on it and see if I can help you.
> Gabriele
>
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Tobias Lau wrote:
>
> > Dear Members,
> >
> > I'm quite new at Geoqus but I've already got a big bunch of
> > questions. Right now
> > I'm trying to include a stress field in my model. After some test
> > with the
> > "Geostatic" option I got the hint to use a python skript to extract
> > the results
> > of the pure gravity stress and use that for the initial vertical
> > stress
> > field. So far it works quite well.
> > But now I tried to create a horizontal stress field in the same way
> > without much
> > success. Mayby someone has already some experience with it and
> > could give me
> > a hint. Till now I used a side Load ("pressure") normal to the
> > faces in
> > combination with an expression field to get a vertical increase of the
> > pressure. The only boundary condition is a fixed bottom against
> > gravity. The
> > result displays a strong stress drop along the edges and no stress
> > in the
> > corners. Also I got unrealistic deformations (many times the size
> > of my model
> > although the elastic parameters and stress values are correct) and
> > distribution
> > (instead of my expected vertical deformation increase it is one
> > parallel to the
> > faces but without any vertical component).
> > Thanks for any help.
> > Cheers,
> > Tobias
> >
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