Substructure Tool Macro
The Substructure Tool macro provides several features for creating and modifying substructures. Substructures are user-defined sets of finite elements, elements and nodes, or nodes from the initial model. Information defining the substructures and their boundary node displacements are saved in a special file during the initial run. In subsequent runs, this saved data is read in and the saved displacement time histories are applied as imposed displacements to the boundary nodes. The input data set for a subrun must contain all the information needed to perform the subrun.
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When you open the Substructure Tool macro, the existing substructures are listed in a table-based interface, as shown below.
The substructures are sorted by order of creation. The following columns appear in the table:
Column |
Description |
Keyword Name |
The name of the substructure |
IDEF |
Indicates the definition type of the substructure: 0: Only via elements |
DTSUB |
Specifies the time intervals for the boundary node displacement time histories |
Elements |
Displays the ID of the element-based entity set. You can click the GES… button to use the GES browser to select an entity set. |
Boundary Nodes |
Displays the ID of the boundary node-based entity set. You can click the GES… button to use the GES browser to select an entity set. |
Filename SUBRUN |
Name of the file that contains the definition of the substructure and its boundary node displacements |
Time Factor |
Time unit scaling factor |
Length Factor |
Length unit scaling factor |
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