This chapter discusses obtaining, postprocessing, and visualizing results from Abaqus analyses. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Writing results from an Abaqus analysis to a SIM database,” Section 12.1

• “Output of mode mix ratios during mixed mode delamination,” Section 12.2

• “Output of last converged increment,” Section 12.3

• “Output of contact-related energies,” Section 12.4

• “Magnitude output of vector nodal variables,” Section 12.5

• “Equivalent plastic strain rate,” Section 12.6

• “Principal stresses with bounding values for output field filtering,” Section 12.7

• “Requesting reference sink temperature and film coefficient field output in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 12.8

• “Generating tabular reports for free body cuts from multiple frames,” Section 12.9

• “Selecting the area centroid as the summation point for free body cuts,” Section 12.10

• “Reading X–Y data from free bodies defined on view cuts,” Section 12.11

• “Performing display group Boolean operations on linked viewports,” Section 12.12