Hello all,

Have anyone ever used the Abaqus feature "Initial State" to transfer results between Abaqus Analyses?

I'm trying to transfer an initial state from an Abaqus/Explicit analysis and continue the analysis in Abaqus/Standard.

You can see in the attached image, I need to make the first analysis (picture on the left) using Abaqus/Explicit to use the ALE adaptive meshing technique, and I want to remove the tool, to see the "springback" using Abaqus/Standard to improve computational cost...

Althoug the mapping off the results are Ok at time 0.0 in Abq/Standard, the analysis is not able to continue, the following error is presented in *.msg file:

MAX. PENETRATION ERROR 2.68488E-06 AT NODE 6315 OF CONTACT PAIR

    (SLAVE_RIGID,MASTER_RIGID)

    MAX. CONTACT FORCE ERROR -26.7914      AT NODE 21 OF CONTACT PAIR

    (SLAVE,MASTER)

           PENETRATION ERROR TOO LARGE COMPARED TO DISPLACEMENT INCREMENT.

  AVERAGE FORCE                       4.03       TIME AVG. FORCE        4.03   

  LARGEST RESIDUAL FORCE            -1.566E+03   AT NODE       6144   DOF  2

  LARGEST INCREMENT OF DISP.        -1.547E-04   AT NODE       6143   DOF  2

  LARGEST CORRECTION TO DISP.       -1.148E-04   AT NODE       6143   DOF  2

           FORCE     EQUILIBRIUM NOT ACHIEVED WITHIN TOLERANCE.

  AVERAGE MOMENT                      2.70       TIME AVG. MOMENT       2.70   

  ALL MOMENT    RESIDUALS ARE ZERO

  LARGEST INCREMENT OF ROTATION      3.189E-36   AT NODE       6337   DOF  6

  LARGEST CORRECTION TO ROTATION     9.265E-37   AT NODE       6337   DOF  6

           THE MOMENT    EQUILIBRIUM EQUATIONS HAVE CONVERGED

   NUMBER OF EQUATIONS =    12663     NUMBER OF FLOATING PT. OPERATIONS =  1.04E+08

      CHECK POINT   START OF SOLVER   

      CHECK POINT  END OF SOLVER      

        ELAPSED USER TIME (SEC)      =   0.0000   

        ELAPSED SYSTEM TIME (SEC)    =   0.0000   

        ELAPSED TOTAL CPU TIME (SEC) =   0.0000   

        ELAPSED WALLCLOCK TIME (SEC) =          0

    ELEMENT 1281 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

    ELEMENT 1362 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

    ELEMENT 1401 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

    ELEMENT 1401 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

    ELEMENT 1682 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

    ELEMENT 1722 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

    ELEMENT 6064 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

    ELEMENT 6064 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

    ELEMENT 6065 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

    ELEMENT 6065 IS DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY.

  ***WARNING: THE STRAIN INCREMENT HAS EXCEEDED FIFTY TIMES THE STRAIN TO CAUSE

              FIRST YIELD AT 17 POINTS

  ***WARNING: EXCESSIVE DISTORTION AT A TOTAL OF 7 INTEGRATION POINTS IN SOLID

              (CONTINUUM) ELEMENTS

  ***NOTE: ELEMENTS ARE DISTORTING EXCESSIVELY. CONVERGENCE IS JUDGED UNLIKELY.

I think the problem is not in transferring results, as you can see the initial state on the initial time of the implicit analysis is the same of the end state of the end time of Explicit analysis...

Thanks in advance...