doubt: mass in Ex1a.Canti2D.EQ.tcl

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doubt: mass in Ex1a.Canti2D.EQ.tcl

Post 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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Post 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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Post 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.
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