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hbma
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little curvature

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Hi,
Are kappaz and kappay, the outputs of "element recorder...section deformation", curvature? I ask this since my kappaz and kappay are too smaller than yield curvature (their ratio is in order of 10.e-4) and it seems not reasonable. The max curvature is 7.5e-6 (SI units) but the yield curvature is 0.012.
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Re: little curvature

Post by fmk »

the 2 are indeed the sections axial strain and curvature.
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