6.18 Submodeling based on the driven nodes only found lying within the global model

Products: Abaqus/Standard  Abaqus/Explicit  

Benefits: When using the solid-to-solid submodeling option, you can now specify that Abaqus ignore driven nodes found to lie outside the bounds of elements in the global model.

Description: In some submodeling cases (such as when your submodel geometry is more detailed than the global model in regions near a free surface) you may specify driven nodes that Abaqus will find, even when accounting for the search tolerance, to be outside the region of the global model elements. These cases, by default, result in an error message. You may decide that from a modeling perspective ignoring these nodes is reasonable, and you now can specify that Abaqus is to ignore nodes not found. In this case subsequent submodel boundary condition definitions referring to node sets will exclude any nodes not found from submodel boundary condition application.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Manual

Abaqus Keywords Reference Manual

Abaqus Verification Manual