curvature response

crazylittleapple · Post by **crazylittleapple** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:12 pm

How can I recorder the curvature response of a member during transient analysis? Thanks.

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:15 pm

what element do you have???
use an element recorder, and ask for deformations, but it depends on the type of element. look at the manual and then ask me again if you have questions.

crazylittleapple · Post by **crazylittleapple** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:22 am

Thank you very much for your reply. I am using nonlinear beam elements. I will check it out.

crazylittleapple · Post by **crazylittleapple** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:11 am

What's the meaning of the section deformation output for the nonlinear beam column element?

berktaftali · Post by **berktaftali** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:05 pm

It's the curvature...

crazylittleapple · Post by **crazylittleapple** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 6:49 pm

Thanks for your reply. However, there are several items and the format of the output is like:

Time var1 var2 var3 var4

what's the meaning of those variables var1, var2, var3, and var4? Thanks.

erol kalkan · Post by **erol kalkan** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:10 am

You should be getting three outputs

[time] [axial def] [curvature]

Erol Kalkan

silvia · Post by **silvia** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:17 am

I apologize, documenting output is at the top of my to-do list, of course!!!

it all depends on the dimensions of your problem.
please post the first few lines and we can figure it out.
typically it is time axial curvature

crazylittleapple · Post by **crazylittleapple** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 12:52 pm

Thanks a lot for you guys' replies. I figured it out. The output should be something like:

[time] [axial def] [curvature 1] [curvature 2] [torsional...]

Thanks again.