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Synthesis(CMS) Substructure in
ANSYS Workbench

May 21, 2017

H
ere is a basic example of how one may use CMS inside SHARE

Workbench with APDL command snippets. These

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appropriately named superelements has the advantage of being
ansys
quick to solve once the initial investment is put in. This saves time
CMS
especially for multiple iteration of the same parts (condensed once command snippet

Craig-Bampton
with CMS) while changes are performed on a local full model part.
modal

superelement

The archived workbench file (R18) can be downloaded workbench

here (download icon at top-right).

Original Model in ANSYS Work Bench

The model is rather simple with 3 parts. The bodies are in this case

to be connected with CEINTF. The "MainBody" part will be

condensed into a superelement (Craig-Bampton method) and will

be used later when connected to "Leg1" and "Leg2". The system

natural frequencies are then evaluated. The results are compared

to the old fashion way of creating a full model for verification.

Step 1

Suppress all other bodies except for the "MainBody" which a

superelement will be generated from. Create Named Selections of

the surfaces which will join to "Leg1" and Leg2". In this case, named

them "C1" and "C2". Add a command snippet CreateSE as follows:

fini

/filname,myse ! name of the super element

/solu

antype,substr ! analysis type: substructure

seopt,myse,2 ! saves mass and stiffness matrix

cmsopt,fix,12 ! Craig-Bampton, 12 modes

(CRITICAL)

cmsel,s,c1 ! selects interface name selection

cmsel,a,c2 ! additional interface name selection

m,all,all ! creates master nodes

alls

solve

fini

/eof ! important such that it doesn't solve

modal

Note that ANSYS Work Bench will complain of an Error even if

everything went well. Check in the Solver File Directory to verify

the file myse.sub was created. This can be done by clicking on

Outline Tree > Solution, Right-Mouse-Button > Open Solver File

Directory.

Step 2

Without getting out of Mechanical, suppress "MainBody" and

unsuppress "Leg1" and "Leg2" bodies. Verify that there are no

unintended connections created when you do this. Next, insert the

command snippet below (don't forget to suppress previous SE
generation snippet):

/prep7

*get,etmax,etyp,0,num,max

et,etmax+1,50 ! SuperElement Type

type,etmax+1

mat,1

se,myse ! Creates Super Element

!! Joins Things Together

alls

ceintf, ,all ! Joins interfaces

/solu

alls

Running the above should solve the modes and get something like
this:

Use of SE in Modal Analysis

The original superelement part was not expanded, thus hidden.

This would require another step not covered here.

Verification Step
To verify the method above, all bodies are unsuppressed and
command snippet needs to be configured the same as the previous
CMS for connections:
/prep7

alls

ceintf, ,all ! Joins interface the same way

/solu

alls

The solved full solution should look similar to this:

Full Model Verification

The natural frequencies and mode shapes are almost the same

which is what we're looking for.

Update: Expansion of CMS results discussed in new blog post.

All posts on Superelement

Reuse CMS Superelement in Ansys Workbench with
Expansion Link
Component Mode Synthesis (CMS) with Results Expansion in

Ansys Workbench Link

Craig Bampton Method Overview Link
Component Mode Synthesis(CMS) Substructure in ANSYS
Workbench Link

LABELS: ANSYS, CMS, COMMAND SNIPPET, CRAIG-BAMPTON, MODAL, SUPERELEMENT,

WORKBENCH

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Comments
rie.uoa · February 21, 2018 at 3:42 AM
Thank you very much for this great introduction. Could you please extend
your tutorial with the expansion in Ansys workbench.

Jason Cheah · March 15, 2018 at 11:24 PM

http://www.ansystips.com/2018/03/component-mode-synthesis-
cms-with.html

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Unknown · April 12, 2018 at 10:45 AM

Hi,
Is it possible to have the wbpz in an earlier version; ex: v17.
Many thanks

Jason Cheah · April 12, 2018 at 5:23 PM

Apologies, but I don't have v17 installed so I can't recreate it there.

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Unknown · December 17, 2018 at 5:35 AM

Could this method be applied in flexible multibody dynamics analysis?

Jason Cheah · December 19, 2018 at 8:15 AM

Yes, this method works for flexible multibody dynamic analysis.

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Unknown · January 7, 2019 at 12:39 AM

Hi,
Thank you very much for your tutorial regarding CMS. Could you please
explain the CMS procedure for harmonic analysis too??

Jason Cheah · January 31, 2019 at 6:35 AM

Please see another post here:
http://www.ansystips.com/2018/12/cms-superelement-
harmonic-analysis.html

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Unknown · February 6, 2019 at 8:59 AM

Hi,
Thanks for a great web site. Really useful stuff in here.
I am trying to implement the creation of super elements myself, but get the
following error when running your script, modified to work with my
project, from "step 1":

The option of SUBSTR on the ANTYPE command is either not available for
this version of ANSYS or the appropriate product was not selected for
this session.

Have you maybe come across this error before? I assumed this was the
error you said ANSYS would give and still process the commands, but
unfortunately I get no file "myse.sub" in my solver directory. It seems as the
solver stops at this line, and does not process the following commands.
I have run the same commands directly in APDL without problems, so I find
it strange that Mechanical is complaining.

I am using ANSYS Mechanical Release 19.2, with an ANSYS Academic

Research license.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Adrian

Jason Cheah · February 7, 2019 at 6:05 PM

This sounds strange to me as well when you can do it in Ansys
Classic but not Workbench. Is it possible the license selected is
 different for the two modules?

Good luck,
Jason

Unknown · February 8, 2019 at 3:38 AM

Well, yes. I finally figured it out. It was licensing trouble causing it.
So, for future reference, here is the fix that worked for me:

In Workbench, go to Tools -> License Preferences.

Then, I "moved up" my license for ANSYS Academic Associate
Mechanical and CFD in all tabs, resulting in this being the license
that is checked out first.
Restarting Workbench and Mechanical session seemed to fix it, and
I do now get a super element matrix, "super.sub" generated in the
solver files directory.

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shakn · February 14, 2020 at 12:34 PM

quick question. I am trying to combine multiple superlements. Say in this
example I create all 3 bodies as superelements. then I am unable to use the
ceintf command, only cpintf command works (I am trying this in
Mechanical APDL). But if course cpintf needs a conformal mesh. Do you
know how to fix it? or your general comments on interface coupling
between superelements.

Jason Cheah · February 15, 2020 at 9:21 AM

There are many ways to tie degrees-of-freedom together. Please
see this presentation by PADT on this subject:
http://www.padtinc.com/blog/wp-
content/uploads/oldblog/PADT-Webinar-ConstraintEquations-

2012_04_27.pdf Hopefully one of them would meet your analysis

requirements.

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Ricardo Guierrez · May 6, 2020 at 8:59 AM

If I have only one body to perform the reduction (eg beam), and I want to
perform the modal analysis of only the superelement, how can I do this?

Jason Cheah · June 3, 2020 at 12:21 PM

Unfortunately this blog post is woefully outdated. Recent versions
of Ansys now has built in capabilities to do CMS.
https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?
returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v201/en/wb_sim/ds_condense
d_part_o_r.html?q=cms

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Goutham Sajja · February 28, 2021 at 12:52 PM

Hi Jason,

I need to model one of the component as a flexible body to use it in

Simscape Multibody.
For this, I need to perform finite element of the component, reduce it using
Craig Bampton ROM and extract the mass and stiffness matrix at reduced
locations.
I have performed the modal analysis of the component and evaluated the
mode shapes and natural frequencies of the component. I am finding it
difficult to proceed further.
Can you please guide me on achieving this task?
Regards,
Goutham Sajja
 Atef · April 9, 2021 at 8:25 PM
Dear All; Sze Kwan and Goutham Sajja;
I'm following now an exemple of flexible beam in mathworks wich is
about two methods Lumped Parameter and Finite element Method.
I'm currently discontinued in your question above , plz tell me if
you get a results about Craig-bamptom method.
I have performed the modal analysis in ansys workbench for wing
structure, and i extracted stiffness and mass matrices, now i want
to performe craig-bamptom method (supperelement); plz can you
guide me to achieve this task????
Thanks in advance

Jason Cheah · April 12, 2021 at 9:05 AM

Hi Goutham & Atef,

Similar to steps 1 and 2 above, you are able to create the

superelement with its corresponding master nodes. Clear
everything and only bring in the superelement of interest.

Next, do the steps described in

https://www.ansystips.com/2017/10/export-stiffness-matrix-
from-ansys.html to export the mass and stiffness.

Finally you can export it to Matlab using MMF as described in

https://www.ansystips.com/2019/05/matrix-transfer-between-
matlab-and-ansys.html

Good luck!

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