Initial Conditions

Initial conditions are specified for particular nodes or elements, as appropriate. The data can be provided directly; in an external input file; or, in some cases, by a user subroutine or by the results or output database file from a previous Abaqus analysis.

If initial conditions are not specified, all initial conditions are zero except

  • relative density in the porous metal plasticity model (which has the value 1.0);
  • solution-dependent variables that control element deletion (which has the value 1.0); and
  • element solution-dependent variables that control element deletion (which has the value 1.0).

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See Also
About Prescribed Conditions
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*INITIAL CONDITIONS

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