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nanii0711
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by nanii0711 »
can some one explain how did these values come?
# nodal masses:
mass 2 5.18 1.e-9 0.; # node#, Mx My Mz, Mass=Weight/g.
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nanii0711
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by nanii0711 »
why are we making A very large?
# connectivity: (make A very large, 10e6 times its actual value)
element elasticBeamColumn 1 1 2 3600000000 4227 1080000 1; # element elasticBeamColumn $eleTag $iNode $jNode $A $E $Iz $transfTag
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by fmk »
it doesn'nt really matter .. they are just made up examples!
and they would make A large to try and enforce a constraint using a penalty type method.