This section explains how to integrate substructures into your analysis in Abaqus/CAE. The following topics are covered:

• “Overview of substructures in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 39.1

• “Generating a substructure,” Section 39.2

• “Specifying the retained nodal degrees of freedom and load cases for a substructure,” Section 39.3

• “Importing a substructure into Abaqus/CAE,” Section 39.4

• “Using substructure part instances in an assembly,” Section 39.5

• “Activating load cases during substructure usage,” Section 39.6

• “Recovering field output for substructures,” Section 39.7

• “Visualizing substructure output,” Section 39.8