Products: ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit ABAQUS/CAE
Benefits: The embedded element capability is expanded in Version 6.5 to allow embedding of elements with rotational degrees of freedom into solid elements. Embedding beams or shells, rather than trusses or membranes, into solids is called for in many cases when the underlying reinforcement of a solid body has a significant role in resisting bending or buckling.
Description: The embedded element capability has been available in previous versions to model various types of reinforcement within solid bodies (often in conjunction with the rebar layer capability). Allowing embedding of element types with rotational degrees of freedom is a simple, yet highly useful, extension of this capability. The embedded constraints continue to act only on translations: the translational degrees of freedom of the nodes of the embedded elements are interpolated from the corresponding degrees of freedom of the host elements. Rotational degrees of freedom are not constrained by the embedding.
The following embedding combinations are now available in Version 6.5:
Two-dimensional models:
Beam-in-solid
Solid-in-solid
Truss-in-solid
Axisymmetric models:
Membrane-in-solid (ABAQUS/Standard only)
Shell-in-solid
Solid-in-solid
Surface-in-solid (ABAQUS/Standard only)
Three-dimensional models:
Beam-in-solid
Membrane-in-solid
Shell-in-solid
Solid-in-solid
Surface-in-solid
Truss-in-solid