*HEADING : CPS4 MODEL CHANGE VERIFICATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS *RESTART,WRITE *NODE 1, 0. 10,10. 41,0.,1. 50,10.,1. *NGEN,NSET=BOT 1,10,1 *NGEN,NSET=TOP 41,50,1 *NFILL,NSET=NALL BOT,TOP,4,10 *ELEMENT,TYPE=CPS4 1,1,2,12,11 *ELGEN,ELSET=EALL 1,9,1,1,4,10,10 *ELSET,ELSET=REMOVE,GEN 4,34,10 5,35,10 6,36,10 *SOLID SECTION,MATERIAL=RUBBER,ELSET=EALL 1., *MATERIAL,NAME=RUBBER *HYPERELASTIC, N=1 56.00E4, 14.00E4, 1.43E-7 *DENSITY 2.E-4, *NSET, NSET=XMOVE,GEN 10,50,10 *NSET, NSET=FIX,GEN 1,41,10 *BOUNDARY FIX, 1, 2 ** ** Step 1: Establish a nonlinear base state for freq. extraction *STEP,NLGEOM *STATIC *NODE PRINT,FREQ=0 *EL PRINT,FREQ=0 *NODE FILE, FREQ=99 U,RF *ENDSTEP ** ** Step 2: Extract freq. of original beam *STEP,NLGEOM *FREQUENCY, eigensolver=lanczos, SIM=NO 5, , *MODAL FILE *END STEP ** ** Step 3: Remove middle elements holding beam in place *STEP,NLGEOM *STATIC *BOUNDARY XMOVE,1,2 *MODEL CHANGE,REMOVE,TYPE=ELEMENT REMOVE, *ENDSTEP ** ** Step 4: Shorten beam *STEP,NLGEOM *STATIC *BOUNDARY XMOVE,1,1,-0.5 *ENDSTEP ** ** Step 5: Add elements strain-free *STEP,NLGEOM *STATIC *MODEL CHANGE,ADD,TYPE=ELEMENT REMOVE, *ENDSTEP ** ** Step 6: Extract frequencies of shortened beam *STEP,NLGEOM *FREQUENCY, eigensolver=lanczos, SIM=NO 5, , *BOUNDARY,OP=NEW FIX,1,2 *MODAL FILE *END STEP