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No rating yet Subject: Re: Substructuring Author: John Swanson Date: 2001-04-12 19:05:00I found a lot of information by looking in the Master Index, under Substructuring. The answers to your questions are Yes, Yes, Yes. John Swanson Swanson Analysis Services, Inc.
> I ma looking at doing some substructuring (superelements) on a project > that > I currently have on my desk.
> I can't seem to find a lot of information detailing the process with the > new fangled (improved???) online documentation. Can someone point me to > some good reading on the subject?
> Also, can I do things such as coupling or constraint equations between > Master DOFs of two superelemens? Can a contact analysis be performed (on > the non-superelements) in a analysis that contains super elements? I know > the superelements are considered to be linear, but can the > non-superelements have large deflection or nonlinear material props?