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No rating yet Subject: Superelement Expansion, STRUC Author: Bill Kelly Date: 2002-08-19 11:08:00I am performing a static multi-body sliding contact problem. I have made each body into a separate superelement to reduce run times. The multiple load step job runs fine and I can then expand each superelement at any given time point. Unfortunately, there seems to be no easy way to create an animation of all the bodies together as they slide because each body is in a separate database and results file.
I realize there are some labor intensive ways to combine databases and results files together (nread, eread, numoff, dnsol, etc), but perhaps I'm missing something. It seems to me that multi-body contact with superelements is standard functionality and it should be more straightforward.
It appears that you cannot even create a multiple load step expansion result file for one particular superelement and animate that over time. Apparently you have to create a different results file for each time point and create animations manually with the /seg,multi. Anyone else dealing with this?