How To Get The Volume Of Elements With Certain Type Of Material In Abaqus Odb By Means Of Python

I need to calculate the total volume of elements with a certain type of material, then calculate that part of them in which some UVARM variable is greater than 1, and then define t

Solution 1:

It seems you need to loop over every element and look at the sectionCategory for each:

element.sectionCategory.name

'solid < materialname >'

so you build a full list something like:

steelels = [ el.label for el in instance.elements if el.sectionCategory.name == 'solid < steel >']

Really the preferred approach here is to create the appropriate element sets as you build the model.

Solution 2:

If you edit the model attributes before writing the .inp file to 'do not use parts and assemblies in input files' and run the simulation with this input you probably won't get any issues when accessing the odb.

part_instance = odb.rootAssembly.instances['PART-1-1']
elLabels = [ v.label for v in part_instance.elements if v.sectionCategory.name == 'solid < DUMMY_MATERIAL >']