The hemispherical shell model used in “Substructure rotation, mirroring, transformation, and constraints,” Section 3.4.1, is used to test the *SUBSTRUCTURE COPY, *SUBSTRUCTURE DELETE, and *SUBSTRUCTURE DIRECTORY housekeeping options. The analysis is performed only at the third level of substructure; i.e., the analysis of half of a sphere. Library utilities are tested by moving and deleting the lower-level substructures from different libraries during the various stages of the generation. Regeneration of the substructure is also tested at the analysis stage. The *SUBSTRUCTURE DIRECTORY option is used to monitor the different libraries that are created.

“Combining model and results data from more than one output database into a single output database,” Section 9.15.4 of the ABAQUS Scripting User's Manual, illustrates how you can use a C++ program to combine the results from all the substructure analyses described here into a single output database.