Surface-based submodeling

The surface-based submodeling technique:

  • may not provide the same level of accuracy as node-based submodeling;

  • should be used only when the node-based technique cannot provide adequate results;

  • is limited to stress-based solid-to-solid submodeling for general static procedures (see Static stress analysis) in Abaqus/Standard;

  • applies surface tractions to submodel surfaces based on a stress field interpolated from the global model; and

  • can be combined with node-based submodeling of displacements (see Node-based submodeling).

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