[Gmsh] Representation of moment of beam
Christophe Geuzaine
cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be
Sun Jan 18 13:44:31 CET 2009
Corrado Chisari wrote:
> Christophe Geuzaine wrote:
>
>> Corrado Chisari wrote:
>>> There's a possibility to plot the real moment of a beam, without
>>> linear interpolation? when a distributed load acts on the beam, the
>>> representation should be parabolic, not linear. I thought I could use
>>> the plugin "evaluate", but it works for nodes, while I need to change
>>> the interpolation, not node values.
>> use 2nd order interpolation (3-node line elements)?
>>
>>
>>> Thank you for your wonderful program, especially for geometry module
>>> which is much much better than everything I saw in commercial FEM
>>> programs!
>>> Corrado Chisari
>>>
>>> Michele Mocciola wrote:
>>>> / I would like to represent moment of a beam like a
>>> />/ curve line referred to the beam ( points on the beam
>>> />/ are zero values and distance between the curve and the
>>> />/ beam is the moment value ).
>>> />/ How can I get it?
>>> /
>>> In recent nightly builds you can use the "Normal raise" option (in
>>> Options->View->Offset)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> / Thanks.
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>
> I can't use 3-node line elements in my solver (Code Aster)...by all
> means, it shouldn't be necessary to use 2nd order beam elements, because
> 1st elements are exact in static linear analysis. Any other suggestions?
Maybe I don't understand your question. If you have a single line
element with vector nodal values (1 vector associated with each
extremity), we cannot represent anything else that the linear
interpolation over the element...
> Thank you,
> Corrado Chisari
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