Embedded Elements

The embedded element technique:

  • is used to specify an element or a group of elements that lie embedded in a group of host elements whose response will be used to constrain the translational degrees of freedom and pore pressure degree of freedom of the embedded nodes (i.e., nodes of embedded elements);

  • can be used in geometrically linear or nonlinear analysis;

  • is not available for host elements with rotational degrees of freedom;

  • can be used to model a set of rebar-reinforced membrane, shell, or surface elements that lie embedded in a set of three-dimensional solid (continuum) elements; a set of truss or beam elements that lie embedded in a set of solid elements; or a set of solid elements that lie embedded in another set of solid elements;

  • will not constrain rotational degrees of freedom of the embedded nodes when shell or beam elements are embedded in solid elements; and

  • can be imported from Abaqus/Standard into Abaqus/Explicit and vice versa.

The following topics are discussed:

Related Topics
About Kinematic Constraints
In Other Guides
*EMBEDDED ELEMENT
Defining embedded region constraints

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