Hello community users,

Greetings of the day.

I am encountering a problem while importing temperature field from abaqus/standard to abaqus/explicit.

I am performing a temperature drop simulation in tendon (steel bar) which will introduce compressive stress in the concrete in abaqus/standard. 

The simulation is working fine with temperature value i specified to the tendon is coming out to be same at last step. I am using Static/General step with 3d stress element for tendon (yellow color instance) and other elements. I have specified temp as predefined field. The objective of this analysis is to introduce tension in the tendon which will introduce compressive stress in beam (green color instance). 

Now when i am importing the results from this abaqus/standard to abaqus/explicit for impact analysis. I am defining stress as predefined field from this analysis for all the parts mentioned above. The stress state is importing from the analysis using: 

*Initial Conditions, type=STRESS, file=.../Job-1-t2.odb, step=1, inc=10 

However, i want the final stress to stay constant in tendon throughout the dynamic analysis. When i try to import temperature from the analysis using initial state its gives error because the elements are not coupled temperature/displacement. I tried to define temperature using predefined field temperature with initial condtions from odb results file using:

*Temperature, file= ...Job-1-t2.odb, bstep=1, binc=10, estep=1, einc=10 

The job is submitted and the temperature is assigned to the tendon. During analysis, the temperature is constant but i am not getting the same effect as contraction in beam as i was suppose to get which is the displacement of beam at mid should return to zero at the end of simulation.

Does anyone knows what I'm doing wrong, or is there any other way to keep the stress constant throughout the dynamic simulation as the final state of previous simulation.