Commands
Commands that operate on structural elements.
Structural elements are explicit finite-element based objects formulated using shell and beam theory. As with zones, all element force-displacement calculations are incremental.
Each individual element is connected to others via structural nodes. Interactions with other objects (primarily zones) are handled by structural links associated with the nodes.
There are six types of structural elements supported—each specifies both a default internal behavior and a default link formulation. There are three linear elements (beam, cable, and pile) and three two-dimensional plate elements (shell, liner, and geogrid).
The structural element logic differs from other modules in how it handles id numbers. Within this module, id numbers refer to collections of elements, identifying a given beam or cable structure that may be constructed of any number of individual elements. Each element is identified by a component-id number, which is unique to that element. Nodes and links may be selected by id number, which selects nodes that are attached to element collections with those numbers. Nodes and links also have their own individual component-id numbers.
For more detail, please see General Formulation of Structural-Element Logic.
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Structural Commands
Commands that affect the structural element logic in general.
| structure damping | |
| structure list information | |
| structure results | |
| structure safety-factor | |
| structure scale-rotational-mass |
Commands that apply to beam elements.
Commands that apply to cable elements.
Commands that apply to geogrid elements.
Commands that apply to liner elements.
Commands that apply to pile elements.
Commands that apply to shell elements.
Commands that apply to structural nodes elements.
Commands that apply to structural links elements.
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