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[faristhottoli]

Hello, can anyone suggest a procedure to combine multiple substructure results obtained from expansion pass for getting a full model solution. My full model is made of a repeating pattern which I had made as super element , now I can only view result of single pattern at a single position at a time . I tried using RESWRITE command but it is still giving single pattern result only not the while model.

Thank you

[Sheldon Imaoka]

Please refer to the Mechanical APDL documentation, "Substructuring Analysis Guide", Section 3.3. "Superelement Expansion in Transformed Locations". The basic idea is that, when you perform expansion pass, you offset the node and element IDs, so you have unique IDs for all the repeated patterns. Then, you can use the FILE (or CMSFILE) and SET commands to load the different results file into the same database to visualize the entire model's results.
Section 5.3.5. "Superelement Expansion in a Transformed Location" has a simple example demonstrating this that may be of interest to you.
Regards Sheldon