Eng-Tips is the largest forum for Engineering Professionals on the Internet.

Members share and learn making Eng-Tips Forums the best source of engineering information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations dmapguru on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Substructure generate problem

Status
Not open for further replies.

JoeJoyce

Mechanical
Joined
Oct 19, 2015
Messages
1
Location
GB
Hi all,

I'm trying to extract the reduced mass and stiffness matrices from my FE model. I'm using Abaqus 6.13-2 and this is the bit I've introduced into my .inp file:

*STEP, name=CB
*SUBSTRUCTURE GENERATE, TYPE=Z66, MASS MATRIX=YES
*RETAINED NODAL DOFS
101, 13809, 45225
1
5
*SELECT EIGENMODES, DEFINITION=MODE NUMBERS, GENERATE
1
10
1
*SUBSTRUCTURE MATRIX OUTPUT, OUTPUT FILE=USER DEFINED, FILE NAME=B1_CB_MATRICES, MASS=YES, RECOVERY MATRIX=YES, STIFFNESS=YES
*END STEP

The error messages I've got are the following:

Error in job B1_CB-1: in keyword *SUBSTRUCTUREGENERATE, file "B1_CB.inp", line 87866: The following option is currently not supported in a model defined in terms of an assembly of part instances: *SUBSTRUCTURE GENERATE
Error in job B1_CB-1: in keyword *RETAINEDNODALDOFS, file "B1_CB.inp", line 87867: Unknown assembly id 101.
Error in job B1_CB-1: in keyword *RETAINEDNODALDOFS, file "B1_CB.inp", line 87867: Unknown assembly id 1.
Error in job B1_CB-1: in keyword *RETAINEDNODALDOFS, file "B1_CB.inp", line 87867: Unknown assembly id 5.
Error in job B1_CB-1: RETAINED NODES CANNOT BE LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO ZERO
Error in job B1_CB-1: RETAINED NODES CANNOT BE LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO ZERO
Error in job B1_CB-1: RETAINED NODES CANNOT BE LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO ZERO
Error in job B1_CB-1: NO VALID RETAINED NODE HAS BEEN READ.
Error in job B1_CB-1: YOU CANNOT GENERATE BETWEEN 1 AND 0 WITH AN INCREMENT OF 1
Error in job B1_CB-1: RETAINED NODAL DOFS FOR SUBSTRUCTURE GENERATION STEP 1 ARE NOT SPECIFIED. THE RETAINED NODAL DOFS OPTION MUST APPEAR IN A SUBSTRUCTURE GENERATE PROCEDURE.

Could anybody give me a hand on this one?

Thanks in advance,

Joe
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top