zone.state

Syntax

i = zone.state(z,bavg)

zone.state(z) = i

Get/set the current plasticity state indicators for the zone.

Tetrahedral subzones comprise a zone in FLAC3D, whereas triangular subzones comprise a zone in FLAC2D. Each subzone has a member variable that maintains its failure state. The member variable has 64 bits that can be used to represent 64 different states. Each constitutive model defines its own list of states, and its own assignment of state names to bits in the state variable. For convenience, however, a convention has been adopted for the most common states. The following table lists failure states and the convention adopted by many of the constitutive models.

Failure States	Value	Label
Failure in shear now	1	shear-n
Failure in tension now	2	tension-n
Failure in shear in the past	4	shear-p
Failure in tension in the past	8	tension-p
Failure in joint shear now	16	j-shear-n
Failure in joint tension now	32	j-tension-n
Failure in joint shear in the past	64	j-shear-p
Failure in joint tension in the past	128	j-tension-p
Failure in volume now	256	volume-n
Failure in volume in the past	512	volume-p

The states supported by a constitutive model can be listed with the zone cmodel list state command.

The math.and and math.or intrinsics may be used to check against a specific bit or bit pattern.

Returns:

i - the plasticity state indicators, encoded as bits

Accepts:

i - the plasticity state indicator, encoded as bits. All tetra in the zone will be assigned this state indicator.

Arguments:

z - a zone pointer

bavg - if true, the bit will be set if 50% or more of the volume averaged subzone have that bit set. If false, the bit will be set if any subzone in the zone have that bit set. This value is ignored on assignment.