The event series functionality in Abaqus/Standard allows you to define fields that vary with time and space (event series) and to provide
access to them from user subroutines UMDFLUX
and UEPACTIVATIONVOL. During the analysis, you
can access only a slice of event series data, where a slice is a series of events from a
current time increment. The utility routines that can be invoked to query or access the data
are described in Accessing Abaqus Event Series Data. Examples of using event series functionality to specify raw
material deposition and moving heat source for additive manufacturing process simulation are
presented in Special-Purpose Techniques for Additive Manufacturing.
Event Series Definition
To define an event series, you must first declare the type of the event
series, which determines the number of fields to include in the definition. The
time and space variation of these fields are specified in tabular form as a
list of discrete events corresponding to increasing values of time. In general,
Abaqus
does not make any assumptions about how the fields vary between discrete events
(no interpolation of the data is performed); the interpretation of the discrete
events is determined by the user.
The type and event series definitions have a global scope and must be
unique for the model. By default, the time of events is assumed to be the step
time, but you can define events using the total time instead. See
Conventions
for a discussion of these time measures.
Reading Event Series Data from a SIM Database File
To read event series data from a SIM
database file, you must specify the name of the file. The
SIM file must contain the complete definition
of the event series, including the type declaration. You do not need to specify
the file extension. By default,
Abaqus
uses the name of the event series from the SIM
database, but you can modify this name.
Reading Event Series Data from an Alternate Input File
The event series data can be contained in a separate input file (see
Input Syntax Rules).
Positioning of Event Series Data
You can modify the position coordinates in the event series by specifying a
translation and/or rotation for events relative to the origin of the global
coordinate system.