Hi!

I am performing a convergence study on my model, where I do an analysis in Abaqus/Explicit. I wish to study whether the von Mises stress is converging, and since the elements change depending on the mesh, I have created a set with a node of interest. When requesting the history output, I retrieve the von Mises stress and principal stresses in the node and the displacements in another set of nodes. But when I go to create XY-data after the analysis is done, I can only choose the displacements. Why is that, and is there something I can do to get the history of the stresses?

I also request the same displacements and stresses for the field output, but with a much smaller number of intervals, as I only do it to visualize the structure's behaviour. I could increase the number of intervals for the field output, but I'd rather avoid that as the resulting odb files become very large.