Products: Abaqus/Standard Abaqus/CAE
Benefits: You can request history output of accumulated quantities across a surface in Abaqus/Standard. You can also monitor the average translation and rotation of a surface using integrated output sections.
Description: You can obtain the time history of accumulated quantities over a surface such as force, moment, and heat flux. Vector quantities can be computed in a coordinate system that is fixed or rotates and translates with the deformation. You must define an integrated output section definition and associate it with an integrated output request when the output in a moving coordinate system is required. Integrated output can be requested using cross-section-like “interior” surfaces to study flow in a model with a free-body-diagram-type simplification. Integrated output can also be requested for “exterior” surfaces to study flow across a boundary.
An integrated output section definition can be used with an integrated output request as described above. It can also be used to monitor the average motion of a surface by including a reference node in the integrated output section definition.
Step module: OutputIntegrated Output Sections