Components
Components collect and organize points, lines, surfaces, solids, elements and connectors. Components are intended to be organizational containers for the geometry and FE idealization of a physical part which makes up a product.
Components can be organized into one or more assemblies, therefore, components are not mutually exclusive to an assembly. It is not recommended to organize components into multiple assemblies if it can be avoided. The components which are not organized into an assembly can be observed by changing the entity view in the Model Browser to Assembly View.
Components can be assigned properties and materials. Component property and material assignments are solver interface dependent. In general, when a component is assigned a property or material, that property or material assignment is applied to all elements organized within that component. The method of assigning properties and materials at the component level is therefore referred to as indirect property and material assignment. Direct property and material assignment is performed directly on the elements themselves. Direct property and material assignments always take precedence over indirect property and material assignments.
Abaqus Cards
| Card | Description |
|---|---|
| *ASSEMBLY | A collection of positioned part instances. |
| *END ASSEMBLY | Specifies the end of the assembly definition. |
| *END INSTANCE | End of the part instance. |
| *END PART | End of a part definition. |
| *INSTANCE | Used to instance a part within an assembly. |
| *PART | Contains nodes, elements, and properties for a specific part. |
ANSYS Cards
| Card | Description |
|---|---|
| *HM_COMP |
EXODUS Cards
| Card | Description |
|---|---|
| Beam | |
| ConMass | |
| ContactTie | |
| ElementBlocks | |
| Shell | |
| Solid | |
| Spring | |
| Truss |
LS-DYNA Cards
| Card | Description |
|---|---|
| *PART | Defines parts for part adaptivity. |
| *PART_COMPOSITE | Provides a simplified method of defining a composite material model for shell elements that eliminates the need for user defined integration rules and part IDs for each composite layer. |
| *PART_COMPOSITE_CONTACT | Allows part based contact parameters to be used with the automatic contact types a3, 4, a5, a10, 13, 15 and 26. |
| *PART_COMPOSITE_TSHELL | |
| *PART_COMPOSITE_LONG | |
| *PART_CONTACT | Allows part-based contact parameters to be used with the automatic contact types a3, a5, a10, a13, 15 and 26 |
| *PART_CONTACT_PRINT | |
| *PART_INERTIA | Allows the inertial properties and initial conditions to be defined rather than calculated from the finite element mesh. |
| *PART_INERTIA_CONTACT | |
| *PART_INERTIA_CONTACT_PRINT | |
| *PART_INERTIA_PRINT | |
| *PART_MOVE | Translate a part by an incremental displacement in either a local or a global coordinate system. |
| *PART_PRINT | Allows user control over whether output data is written into the ASCII files MATSUM and RBDOUT. |
| *PART_REPOSITION | Applies to deformable materials and is used to reposition deformable materials attached to rigid dummy components whose motion is controlled by CAL3D. |
| *PART_REPOSITION_CONTACT | |
| *PART_REPOSITION_CONTACT_PRINT | |
| *PART_REPOSITION_PRINT |
PAM-CRASH Cards
| Card | Description |
|---|---|
| MPART / | General Modular Material Part definition |
| MPART / ATYPE = SHELL | Shell Modular Material Part definition |
| MPART / ATYPE = SOLID | Solid Modular Material Part definition |
| PART / | General Part Definition (3D, 2D, 1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = BAR | Bar Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = BEAM | Beam Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = BSHEL | Brick Shell Part Definition (3D) |
| PART / ATYPE = COS3D | Cohesive Part Definition (3D) |
| PART / ATYPE = ELINK | ELINK Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = GAP | Gap Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = JOINT | Joint Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = KJOIN | Kinematic Joint Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = LLINK | LLINK Part Definition (1D) (LLINK part definition input is phased out as of solver version 2018) |
| PART / ATYPE = MBKJN | MBSYS Kinematic Joint Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = MBSPR | MBSYS Spring Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = MEMBR | Membrane Part Definition (2D) |
| PART / ATYPE = MTOJNT | MTOJNT Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = MUSCLE | Muscle Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = PLINK | PLINK Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = SHELL | Shell Part Definition (2D) |
| PART / ATYPE = SLINK | SLINK Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = SOLID | Solid Part Definition (3D) |
| PART / ATYPE = SPHEL | SPH Element Part Definition (3D) |
| PART / ATYPE = SPRGBM | Spring-Beam Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = SPRING | Spring Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = TETRA | Tetrahedral Part Definition (3D) |
| PART / ATYPE = TIED | Tied Interface Part Definition (1D) |
| PART / ATYPE = TSHEL | Thick Shell Part Definition (2D) |
| SECURE/ ENCRYTYP = MPART | Secure definition for Modular Material Part entity to encrypt information in the input file |
| SECURE/ ENCRYTYP = PART | Secure definition for Part entity to encrypt information in the input file |
Permas Cards
| Card | Description |
|---|---|
| $ELPROP | Assignment of geometrical data and material to elements. |
Radioss Cards
| Card | Description |
|---|---|
| /PART | Defines a part, which combines material and property
information. Optionally, the interface gap can be specified. Note: Block Format Keyword |