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- Page 3 Interface
Define an airbag or control volume
Define Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian inputs
Define imposed motions on boundary nodes
Constrain degrees of freedom to move together in some way
Incorporate specialized components (such as HYBRIDIII dummies)
Treat interaction be between disjoint parts
Activate or change default solution options
Define deformable to rigid transformations
Specify damping over a range of frequencies
Request output files containing results information
Define boxes, coordinate systems, load curves, tables, and vectors
Define various types of finite elements
Reference equations of state by type identifiers
Define hourglass and bulk viscosity properties
Initialize velocities and detonation points
Define through the thickness integration rules for beam element
Define an interface for linking calculations
Define applied forces
Define materials by type identifiers
Define nodes and their coordinates in the global coordinate system
Define values for parameters referenced throughout the input file
Define parts (material, section prop, hourglass type, etc...)
Treat contact between a rigid surface and slave nodes
Define sections (element form, integration rule, thickness, etc...)
Define groups of nodes, parts, elements, and segments
Stop the calculation before the termination time is reached
Define custom input and allocate storage for custom subroutines




