ABAQUS/Explicit has a recovery mechanism for analysis jobs that terminate prematurely; for example, because of disk space or power failures. For more information, see “Choosing the job type,” Section 18.6.3. However, unlike ABAQUS/Explicit, ABAQUS/Standard does not have a recovery mechanism. The following example describes how you can use the restart capabilities of ABAQUS/Standard to continue an analysis that terminated prematurely. Assume the following:
You analyzed Model-A containing Step-1, Step-2, and Step-3.
Because of a power outage, the analysis ended prematurely at Increment 17 of Step-2.
You requested that restart information be saved every 10 increments. As a result, the last restart information was saved at Increment 10 of Step-2.
The following procedure describes how you can recover the analysis using the last restart information that was saved:
Copy Model-A to a new model, say Model-A-recover, and make Model-A-recover the current model.
From the main menu bar, select Model
Edit AttributesModel-A-recover. From the Edit Model Attributes dialog box that appears, do the following:
Toggle on Read data from job, and enter Job-A to indicate the job from which the restart data will be read.
Set the restart location:
Enter Step-2 to indicate the step from which the restart data will be read.
Choose Restart from increment/interval, and enter 10 to indicate the increment from which the restart data will be read.
Choose and complete the step. Step-2 will continue the analysis after increment 10 and run to completion.
Copy Job-A to a new job, say Job-A-recover, that uses Model-A-recover. ABAQUS/CAE sets the job type to Restart.
Submit Job-A-recover for analysis.