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*KINEMATIC

11.2 *KINEMATIC: Deﬁne a kinematic couplingconstraint.

This option is used to deﬁne a kinematic coupling constraint. It must be used in conjunction with the

*COUPLING option.

Products: ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit

Type: Model data

Level: Part, Part instance, Assembly

References:

•“Coupling constraints,” Section28.3.2 of the ABAQUS Analysis User ’sManual

•*COUPLING

There are no parameters associated with this option.

Data lines to specify the degrees of freedom to be constrained:

First line:

1. First degree of freedom constrained. See “Conventions,” Section 1.2.2 of the

ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual, for a deﬁnition of the numbe ring of degrees of freedom

in ABAQUS. If this ﬁeld is left blank,all degrees of freedom will be constrained.

2. Lastdegree of freedom constrained. Ifthis ﬁeld is left blank, the degree of freedom speciﬁed

in the ﬁrst ﬁeld will be the only one constrained.

Repeat this data lineas often as necessar y to specify constraintsfor different degrees of freedom. When

the ORIENTATIONparameter is speciﬁed on the associated *COUPLING option, the degrees of freedom

are in the referenced local system inthe initial conﬁguration; otherwise, they are in the global system. In

either case these directions will rotatewith the reference node in large-displacement analyses (when the

NLGEOM parameter is included on the *STEP option).

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