[Geoqus] Abaqus Models - Stress Analysis Tool

[Oliver Heidbach]

Dear colleges,

In order to significantly speed up the analysis of 4D geomechanical 
model results as well as to increase the quality and flexibility of the 
output and figure/movie generation we programmed the Add-on GeoStress 
for the commercial visualisation software Tecplot 360 EX (release 2015 
R2, http://www.tecplot.com/my/free-trial-software/). Tecplot 360 EX is 
dedicated for the analysis and visualization of unstructured 4D data 
that come from commercial finite element software packages, fluid 
dynamic codes and other numerical solvers. The data loader of Tecplot 
360 EX can read the binary files from the leading commercial finite 
element codes (e.g. Abaqus or Ansys) and also provides a reader for 
ASCII data.

Tecplot 360 EX allows a professional programming of add-ons in C and 
Fortran 90 and access to all model variables, details of the mesh and 
the incorporated interpolation schemes. The output can be ASCII, images 
in user-defined resolution postscript, vector files and movies  in 
different output formats. The add-on is explicitly made for the analysis 
of the 3D stress tensor and 3D displacement vector over time, but 
Tecplot 360 EX can also easily handle the results of 
thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) models to visualize also the temperature 
and pore pressure field. The Add-on has almost no limit (we tested it 
already with 25 Million linear tetra elements without any problems)

Below you will find the link where to download the besides the attached 
manual, examples and the add-on library (windows 64 bit compilation and 
one for Linux 64 bit). You can download from the Tecplot website a one 
month trial version for free and test it (Tecplot 360 EX 2015 R2, note 
that the add-on is not yet compiled for the 2016 version of Tecplot). If 
you intend to actually buy a Tecplot version we would appreciate if you 
can drop us a note. We are in close contact to the European distributor 
(Genias Graphics in Germany) and we need their further support for 
additional developments.

ftp-site: ftp://ftp.gfz-potsdam.de/pub/incoming/heidbach/Tecplot/

Please feel free to forward this information to colleges who are also 
interested in that tool. If you have questions, please to not hesitate 
to contact us.

Best regards
Oliver Heidbach and Dietrich Stromeyer

  
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Dr. Oliver Heidbach

Head of the World Stress Map Project
Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 2.6 Seismic Hazard and Stress Field
Telegrafenberg
14473 Potsdam
Germany

phone:  +49(0)331 288-2814
fax:    +49(0)331 288-1127

e-mail:heidbach at gfz-potsdam.de
web:http://www.gfz-potsdam.de
         http://www.world-stress-map.org
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