Photo by James Owen on Unsplash A surprisingly popular blog-post written here is Exporting Stiffness Matrix from Ansys . A sensible follow up question is what can one do with the exported stiffness matrix? In a recent Xansys Forum post, a question was raised on how we can edit the stiffness matrix of a superelement and use it for our model. An approach presented below is to first create a superelement that has the same number of DOF and nodal location that will serve as a template. An APDL script can then be written to edit the stiffness matrix entries as desired before exporting to a new superelement *.SUB file for use in future models. The self-contained script below demonstrates this. /prep7 et ,1, 185 mp , ex, 1, 200e3 mp , prxy, 1, 0.33 w = 0.1 ! single element (note nodal locations) n , 1, w, -w, -w n , 2, w, w, -w n , 3, -w, w, -w n , 4, -w, -w, -w n , 5, w, -w, w n , 6, w, w, w n , 7, -w, w, w n , 8, -w, -w, w e , 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 /solu antype , substr ! analy
Figure 1: CMS Reuse Project Schematic In the previous two posts ( here and here ), the workflow requires another generation pass when reusing the model. This diminishes the advantage of using a component mode synthesis (CMS) superelement model. The difficulty is that when the model changes, the superelement node numbering no longer matches the new workbench (WB) model. Everything gets shuffled around. To reuse a superelement body, we need the nodes to persist in the final Analysis for expansion. Strategy We start out with an original modal analysis ( Analysis A ) that would have worked on it's own. Next, the original modal analysis is duplicated (becoming Analysis B ). Analysis A will be modified to only have the superelement body while Analysis B will be modified to have the geometry and mesh of non-superelement body. When both analysis are assembled into a new modal Analysis C , Analysis B 's element and nodes are automatically offset so that the ordering is