dear all,
I'm a little bit confused with the orientation vectors.
I have two columns. Local x axis of the columns coincide with global y axis.
Between the two columns i have a zerolengthsection element (fiber section)
I want the local x axis of the zerolengthsection to coincide with the global y axis.
I defined the zerolengthsection as follows
element zeroLengthSection 11 2 21 1000 -orient 0 1 0 1 0 0 ;
Am i right?
Thank you for your help
zeroLengthSection orientation
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Re: zeroLengthSection orientation
I would define it like this:
element zeroLengthSection 11 2 21 1000 -orient 0 1 0 -1 0 0
element zeroLengthSection 11 2 21 1000 -orient 0 1 0 -1 0 0