Hello all,

are there another way to define all of initial status of parts from a previous analysis except using importing initial state (*Import, State=yes, Update=yes)?

I tried to use
*Initial Condition, type=Stress, Unbalanced Stress=Step, file=Path, step=Step, inc=Inc and
*Initial Condition, type=Temperature, file=Path, step=Step, inc=Inc
but the results are not similar to the one using keywords *Import, State=yes, Update=yes that I expected.

The reason could be the missing of strain (and/or strain rate) because I use a viscoelastic material model with William Landel Ferry transfer properties in my previous analysis, which are imported in the current model as *Import or *Initial Condition.

Note that the same material are also used for the current analysis. With *Import, the second analysis works well. I want to get the similar result if using *Initial Condition.

Thank you for your comments.