Writing Surface Output to the Output Database

You can write variables associated with surfaces in contact, coupled thermal-electrical-structural (Abaqus/Standard only), coupled temperature-displacement (Abaqus/Standard only), coupled thermal-electrical, and crack propagation problems to the output database. Multiple output requests can be used to customize requests among interactions, surfaces, or node sets.

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For surface variables associated with cavity radiation, see Cavity Radiation Output in Abaqus/Standard.

Use element output requests (see Writing Element Output to the Output Database) to obtain database output for contact elements (such as gap elements; see Gap Contact Elements).

In Abaqus/Standard contact history output cannot be saved in a linear perturbation step with frequency extraction.

Displacement nodal output is generated automatically in Abaqus/Explicit when requesting surface output.