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Subject: Re: Superelement Load Vector
Author: Dan Bohlen
Date: 2001-07-10 12:11:00

Doug, It's been awhile since I've used superelements, but my notes indicate that the load vector is stored in the {jobname}.seld file. "Scott, Doug" wrote: > Does anyone know where the superelement load vector is stored? > I was doing a contact problem that took almost 13 hours. I made one of the > parts a superelement and added a unit pressure load to the substructure. I > then ran the same analysis with this superelement and it only took about 2 > hours. Pretty good and it even had the same results. So now it's time to > play with the time steps and FKN. > I first changed the time step and it ran in only 13 minutes, but that was > because there was no pressure from the load vector. I ran my macros again > to read in the superelement and apply the load vector, but I can't tell if > the pressure is there (plotting or with SFELIST). > I'm using 5.7.1 on an NT box. > Any clues as to what's going on? > Thanks, Doug Scott > Inertial Sensors Products Redmond > (425) 885-8267 > (425) 885-8579 fax > Doug.Scott2@H... Dan Bohlen Phone: (513) 243-4645 / Dial Comm [8*332-4645] Stress Analyst Email: dan.bohlen@a... M/D K-105 GE Aircraft Engines Fax: (513) 243-4888 or 243-4886

Posts possibly associated with message #25742		Author	Date
`25737`	`Superelement Load Vector`	`Doug Scott`	`2001/07/10`
`25742`	`Re: Superelement Load Vector`	`Dan Bohlen`	`2001/07/10`
`25746`	`Re: Superelement Load Vector`	`Doug Scott`	`2001/07/10`
`25751`	`Re: Superelement Load Vector`	`Doug Scott`	`2001/07/10`