controlling cutbacks, 12
controlling restarts, 12
convergence
checking, 245
enhancements, 267
failure, 267
convergence criteria, 245
default value, 245
disjointed structures, 245
displacement checking, 245
force checking, 245
vector norms, 245
convergence tolerances, 12
coupling, 414
covariance
calculating, 167
creating
sections, 436, 461
beam tool, 439
creep, 201, 210
automatic time stepping, 213
explicit, 210, 249
explicit creep procedure, 213
implicit, 210, 249
implicit creep procedure, 211
ratio, 249
creep criteria, 15, 249
creep strain rate, 210
cross sections (see sections) (see Sections)
composite, 441
custom convergence criteria, 245
cutback changes via SOLCONTROL, 247
cutback criteria, 12
D
damped method
modal analysis, 41, 64
damping, 2, 116, 254
harmonic analysis, 86
spectrum analysis
PSD, 159
table of options, 2
transient dynamic analysis, 114, 116, 122
database output, 11, 87, 101, 113, 122, 126, 243
DDAM (see dynamic design analysis method)
debonding, 404
deep drawing, 213
deformed shape
display, 20, 143, 186, 252
displaying, 334
delamination, 381
in a contact analysis, 404
meshing, 401
results, 402
deleting
sections, 436, 461
deterministic analysis, 137
disjointed structures, 245
display deformed shape, 89
displaying
deformed shapes, 48, 252
dynamic analyses
harmonic, 77
spectrum, 135
transient, 107
dynamic design analysis method (DDAM), 136, 168E
eigenmodes
reusing eigenmodes, 68
reusing extracted eigenmodes, 69
eigenvalue analysis, 39
eigenvalue buckling, 179
eigenvalue buckling solution
buckling analysis, 183
eigenvalue calculation
shift point, 183
eigenvalue extraction methods, 183
eigenvalues, 39
number to be extracted, 183
eigenvectors, 39
elastomers, 202
element birth and death, 258
element damping, 2
element loads, 97
element types
structural, 2
elements
associating sec IDs with, 436, 461
engineering strain, 200
engineering stress, 200
epoxy, 409
equation solvers, 12, 80, 244
equilibrium iterations, 195, 246
number of, 12, 246
error estimation, 20
example input
nonlinear structural
transient, 256
example modal analyses, 50
example nonlinear analysis
command method, 281
GUI method, 273
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