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Components collect and organize points, lines, surfaces, solids, elements and connectors.  Components are intended to be organizational containers for the geometry and FE idealization of a physical part which makes up a product.  Components are created, edited, and deleted from the Model browser and are shown under the Component folder.  Components also have a component view within the Model browser which lists only components and has advanced options for component creation and editing.

Points, lines, surfaces, solids, elements, and connectors can be organized into a component using the Organize panel.  Every point, line, surface, solid, element, and connector must be organized into one, and only one, component and therefore are mutually exclusive to a component.  Newly created points, lines, surfaces, solids, elements, and connectors are automatically organized into the current component.

The current component is shown in the status bar and is also bold in the Model browser.  The current component can be set using the Model browser context menu on a selected component within the Component folder.  Components can also be card edited using the Model browser context menu on selected components.

Components have a display state, on or off, which control the display of all points, lines, surfaces, solids, elements, and connectors organized within the component in the graphics area.  The display state of a component can be controlled using the icons next to the component in the Model browser.  Geometry and element display states can be controlled separately for components.

Components also have an active and export state.  The active state of a component controls the display state of the component and the listing of the component in the Model browser and any of its views.  If a component is active, then its display state is available to be turned on or off and it is listed in the Model browser and any of its views.  If a component is inactive, then its display state is turned off permanently and it is not listed in the Model browser or any of its views.  If a find operation "finds" an inactive component, that component will automatically be set to active.

The export state of a component controls whether or not that component and all points, lines, surfaces, solids, elements, and connectors organized within the component are exported when the custom export option is utilized.  The all export option is not affected by the export state of a component.  The active and export states of components can be controlled using the Entity State browser.

Components can also be assigned properties and materials.  Component property and material assignments are user profile (solver interface) dependent, and are described in the section Element Property and Material Assignment Rules.  In general, when a component is assigned a property or material, that property or material assignment is applied to all elements organized within that component.  The method of assigning properties and materials at the component level is therefore referred to as indirect property and material assignment.  Direct property and material assignment is performed directly on the elements themselves.  Direct property and material assignments always take precedence over indirect property and material assignments.

Operations performed on a component affect all points, lines, surfaces, solids, elements, and connectors within the component.  For example, if you delete a component, the points, lines, surfaces, solids, elements, and connectors within the component are also deleted.

The data names associated with components can be found in the data names section of the HyperMesh Reference Guide.

 

Solver Card Support for Components


hmtoggle_arrow1Actran

You can define the following Actran components:

Supported Cards

Solver Description

Supported Parameters

Notes

COUPLING_SURFACE

Used for BC_MESH and INTERFACE purposes to handle incompatible meshes.

Name, ID

 

DISCRETE

Corresponds to springs and lumped mass elements.

Name, ID

 

FIELD_POINT_SURFACE

 

Name, ID

 

FINITE_FLUID

Corresponds to the finite elements used to model acoustic media.

Name, ID, POWER EVALUATION

 

INCIDENT_SURFACE

A set of finite element faces supporting the evaluation of the incident acoustic power.

Name, ID

 

INFINITE_DOMAIN

Collection of infinite elements that discretize an unbounded acoustic domain.

 

 

INFINITE_FLUID

Corresponds to the infinite elements used to model acoustic free field.

Order

ORIGIN, VECTOR

 

INFINITE_MESH

The INFINITE MESH data block is made of two subsections - INFINITE_DOMAIN and INFINITE_ELEMENT

 

 

MODAL_BASIS

Defines the modal content of the sound field in a modal component

MATERIAL, Coord Syst, Shape, MODE, DIRECTION, PROPERTY, Flow

 

MODAL_SURFACE

Defines the coupling surface between modal components and the acoustic finite element model

 

 

POROUS_UP

Corresponds to finite elements used to model poro-elastic media.

Name, ID, POWER EVALUATION

 

RADIATING_SURFACE

A set of finite element faces on which the acoustic power is calculated.

Name, ID

 

RAYLEIGH_SURFACE

A set of boundary elements used to model a semi-infinite acoustic fluid interfaced with a plane or nearly plane baffled structure.

Name, ID

 

RIGID_POROUS

Corresponds to finite elements used to model rigid porous media.

Name, ID, POWER EVALUATION

 

SHELL

Corresponds to finite elements used to model shell visco-elastic media.

Name, ID, POWER EVALUATION, AUTO ORIENT

 

SOLID

Corresponds to finite elements used to model solid visco-elastic materials.

Name, ID, POWER EVALUATION

 

STIFFENER

Corresponds to finite elements used to model Actran equivalent stiffeners.

Name, ID

 

SUPER_CONNECTOR

Used to couple an Actran model to a Nastran super-element.

COUPLING SURFACE: SURFACE, GAP_TOL, PLANE_TOL

TRANSLATION STIFFNESS: Normal, Tang1, Tang2

ROTATIONAL STIFFNESS: Normal, Tang1, Tang2

 

VISCOTHERMAL_FLUID

Corresponds to finite elements used to model viscothermal fluid media.

Name, ID, POWER EVALUATION, AUTO ORIENT

 

 

 

hmtoggle_arrow1ANSYS

Supported Cards

Solver Description

Supported Parameters

Notes

*HM_COMP

 

TYPE, MAT, REAL

ET card, R card, MAT, and SECDATA card

 

hmtoggle_arrow1Exodus

In the Exodus profile, the Block entity is used to create components.

Supported Cards

Solver Description

Supported Parameters

Notes

Beam

 

Material, Area, I1, I2, J, OrientX, OrientY, OrientZ, OffsetX, OffsetY, OffsetZ

 

ConMass

 

mass, Ixx, Iyy, Izz, Ixy, Iyz, Izx, OffsetX, OffsetY, OffsetZ

 

ContactTie

 

kx, ky, kz, krx, kry, krz

 

ElementBlocks

 

Material

 

Shell

 

Material, T, NSM

 

Solid

 

Material

 

Spring

 

Material, kx, ky, kz

 

Truss

 

Material, Area

 

 

hmtoggle_arrow1LS-DYNA

Supported Cards

Solver Description

Supported Parameters

Notes

*PART

Define parts for part adaptivity.

comment

EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID

Options (None, Inertia, Reposition, Interia_Contact, Reposition_Contact, Contact)

PrintOption

RigidBodyMerge

DampingMass

DampingStiffness

IncludeStampPart

PartMove

 

*PART_COMPOSITE

Provides a simplified method of defining a composite material model for shell elements that eliminates the need for user defined integration rules and part IDs for each composite layer.

HEADING, ELFORM, SHRF, NLOC, MAREA, HGID, ADPOPT, MID, THICK, B

ContactOption

Number_of_Plies

 

*PART_COMPOSITE_
CONTACT

Allows part based contact parameters to be used with the automatic contact types a3, 4, a5, a10, 13, 15 and 26.

HEADING, ELFORM, SHRF, NLOC, MAREA, HGID, ADPOPT, FS, FD, DC, VC, OPTT, SFT, SSF

Number_of_Plies

 

*PART_COMPOSITE_
TSHELL

 

 

 

*PART_CONTACT

Allows part-based contact parameters to be used with the automatic contact types a3, a5, a10, a13, 15 and 26

comment, EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, SCFC, DCFC, EDC, VCFC, OPTT, SFT, SSF

ConRigidBodiesHelp

 

*PART_CONTACT_PRINT

 

comment, EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, SCFC, DCFC, EDC, VCFC, OPTT, SFT, SSF, PRBF

ConRigidBodiesHelp

 

*PART_INERTIA

Allows the inertial properties and initial conditions to be defined rather than calculated from the finite element mesh.

comment, EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, XC, YC, ZC, TM, IRCS, NODEID, IXX, IXY, IXZ, IYY, IYZ, IZZ, VTX, VTY, VTZ, VRX, VRY, VRZ

 

*PART_INERTIA_CONTACT

 

comment, EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, XC, YC, ZC, TM, IRCS, NODEID, IXX, IXY, IXZ, IYY, IYZ, IZZ, VTX, VTY, VTZ, VRX, VRY, VRZ, PRBF

 

*PART_INERTIA_CONTACT
_PRINT

 

comment, EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, XC, YC, ZC, TM, IRCS, NODEID, IXX, IXY, IXZ, IYY, IYZ, IZZ, VTX, VTY, VTZ, VRX, VRY, VRZ, SCFC, DCFC, EDC, VCFC, OPTT, SFT, SSF, PRBF

 

*PART_INERTIA_PRINT

 

comment, EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, XC, YC, ZC, TM, IRCS, NODEID, IXX, IXY, IXZ, IYY, IYZ, IZZ, VTX, VTY, VTZ, VRY, VRZ, PRBF

 

*PART_MOVE

Translate a part by an incremental displacement in either a local or a global coordinate system.

XMOV, YMOV, ZMOV, CID

Options (None, Inertia, Reposition, Interia_Contact, Reposition_Contact, Contact)

 

*PART_PRINT

Allows user control over whether output data is written into the ASCII files MATSUM and RBDOUT.

comment

EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, PRBF

Options (None, Inertia, Reposition, Interia_Contact, Reposition_Contact, Contact)

 

*PART_REPOSITION

Applies to deformable materials and is used to reposition deformable materials attached to rigid dummy components whose motion is controlled by either CAL3D or MADYMO.

comment

EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, CMSN, MDEP, MOVOPT

 

*PART_REPOSITION_
CONTACT

 

comment

EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, CMSN, MDEP, MOVOPT, SCFC, DCFC, EDC, VCFC, OPTT, SFT, SSF

 

*PART_REPOSITION_
CONTACT_PRINT

 

comment

EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, CMSN, MDEP, MOVOPT, SCFC, DCFC, EDC, VCFC, OPTT, SFT, SSF, PRBF

 

*PART_REPOSITION_
PRINT

 

comment

EOSID, HGID, GRAV, ADPOPT, TMID, CMSN, MDEP, MOVOPT, PRBF

 

 

 

hmtoggle_arrow1MADYMO

Supported Cards

Solver Description

Supported Parameters

Notes

BELT

This is the root element for defining belt models.

POINT_OBJECT_1.REF

 

BELT_FUSE

Fuse belts can model the tearing of seat belt stitches, which is used as a load limiting device.

 

Defined on the card of parent BELT_SEGMENT

BELT_RETRACTOR

Retractor with webbing grabber.

 

Reference to parent BELT.

BELT_SEGMENT

A belt segment is a section of a belt, defined as a straight line between two points. Where these points are attached to a body, e.g. a dummy model, the belt will slide only along the direction of the belt segment.

 

Reference to parent BELT.

BELT_TYING

Belt segments are joined together using the BELT_TYING elements to specify the segment ends to be joined and the slip friction at the junction.

 

Reference to parent BELT.

CONSTRAINT.RIGID_FE

Rigid elements and rigid parts that form one rigid FE entity.

 

 

CONTACT_EVALUATE

Scale the contact force related to a list of selected contacts of ellipsoids with planes, cylinders and ellipsoids.

CONTACT_LIST

NR_OF_CONTACTS

Type the number of CONTACTs in the CONTACT_LIST and select the desired CONTACT.MB_MBs.

CONTROL_SYSTEM

Control module for multi-body systems.

ID, NAME

 

PART

All finite elements of the same formulation, properties and material are assigned to a part. This XML element indicates which property and material parameters are to be applied to a given part.

ID, NAME, PROPERTY, MATERIAL

 

 

 

hmtoggle_arrow1PAM-CRASH 2G

Supported Cards

Solver Description

Supported Parameters

Notes

PART /

Part_3D

SOLID, BSHEL, TETRA

 

PART /

Part_2D

TSHEL, SHELL, MEMBR

 

PART /

Part_1D

BAR, BEAM, SPRING, JOINT, KJOIN, MBSPR, MBKJN, SPRGBM

 

PART /

PART_LINK

TIED, SLINK, ELINK, PLINK, LLINK

 

 

 

hmtoggle_arrow1PERMAS

Supported Cards

Solver Description

Supported Parameters

Notes

$ELPROP

Assignment of geometrical data and material to elements

Mass/Springs

 

 

hmtoggle_arrow1RADIOSS

The supported RADIOSS cards in RADIOSS (Block Format) up to 110 are listed below. To create these cards, right-click in the Solver browser and select Create Cards from the context menu.

Supported Cards

Solver Description

Supported Parameters

Notes

/PART

Defines a part.

Prop_ID, Mat_ID, Subset_ID, Thick

 

 

 

 

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HyperMesh Entities & Solver Interfaces

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