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 38.1

• “Generating a substructure,” Section 38.2

• “Specifying the retained nodal degrees of freedom for a substructure,” Section 38.3

• “Importing a substructure into Abaqus/CAE,” Section 38.4

• “Using substructure part instances in an assembly,” Section 38.5

• “Recovering field output for substructures,” Section 38.6

• “Visualizing substructure output,” Section 38.7