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      <h4 class="refClassification">Partitional Superelement Connection </h4>
      <p class="para_refTopic">Defines superelement boundary search options and a repeated, mirrored, or collector superelement. </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">SEBULK </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">SEID </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">TYPE </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">RSEID </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">METHOD </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">TOL </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">LOC </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">SEBULK </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">14 </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">REPEAT </p>
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      <div class="title_refCategory">Fields:</div>
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                     <p class="para_td">SEID </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Partitioned superelement identification number.  (Integer &gt; 0) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">TYPE </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Superelement type.  (Character; No Default) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">PRIMARY </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Primary </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">REPEAT </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Identical </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">&nbsp; </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">MIRROR </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Mirror </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">COLLCTR </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Collector </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">EXTERNAL </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">External </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">RSEID </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Identification number of the reference superelement, used if TYPE=&ldquo;REPEAT&rdquo; and &ldquo;MIRROR&rdquo;.  (Integer &ge; 0; Default=0) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">METHOD </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Method to be used when searching for boundary grid points.  (Character:  &ldquo;AUTO&rdquo; or &ldquo;MANUAL&rdquo;; Default=&ldquo;AUTO&rdquo;) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">TOL </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Location tolerance to be used when searching for boundary grid points.  (Real; Default=10E-5) </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">LOC </p>
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                     <p class="para_td">Coincident location check option for manual connection option.  (Character:  &ldquo;YES&rdquo; or &ldquo;NO&rdquo;; Default=&ldquo;YES&rdquo;) </p>
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      <div class="title_refCategory">Remarks: </div>
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               <p class="para_item">The TYPE=&ldquo;REPEAT&rdquo; or &ldquo;MIRROR&rdquo; does not include superelements upstream of the reference superelement.  A repeated or mirrored superelement can have boundaries, loads, constraints, and reduction procedures that are different than the reference superelement. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">METHOD=&ldquo;MANUAL&rdquo; requires SECONCT entries.  SEBNDRY and SEEXCLD, which reference SEID, will produce a fatal message. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">SECONCT, SEBNDRY, and SEEXCLD entries can be used to augment the search procedure and/or override the global tolerance. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">For combined automatic and manual boundary search, the METHOD=&ldquo;AUTO&rdquo; should be specified and connections should be specified on a SECONCT entry. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">TOL and LOC are the default values that can be modified between two superelements by providing the required tolerance on the SECONCT entry. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">TYPE=&ldquo;MIRROR&rdquo; also requires specification of a SEMPLN entry. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">TYPE=&ldquo;COLLCTR&rdquo; indicates a collector superelement, which does not contain any grids or scalar points. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">For TYPE=&ldquo;EXTERNAL&rdquo;, see also EXTOUT. </p>
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               <p class="para_item">This entry will only work if PART superelements (BEGIN SUPER) exist. </p>
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