Table of Contents
Task Description
Theoretical Principles
Systems of Coordinates
Overview of the Element Types
Mesh Partitioning
Plane Elements
Solid Elements
Boundary Conditions
Girders
Literature
Limitations
Input Description
Nodes
Elements
Results
Restart
Input Records
ECHO - Control of the Output
SYST - Global System Parameters
NODE - Nodal Coordinates and Constraints
INTE - Intermediate Nodes
KINE - Kinematic Dependencies
MESH - Generation of Nodes and Quadrilateral Elements
IMES - Generation of Irregular Nodes, Quadrilateral Elements
CUBE - Nodes and Cubic Elements
TRAN - Transformation of Nodes
MIRR - Mirroring of Nodes
ALIN - Node upon a Line (Projection to the Line)
SECT - Node at Intersection of two Straight Lines
Materials
NORM - Default Design Code
MAT - General Material Properties
MATE - Material Properties
MLAY - Layered Material
BMAT - Elastic Support / Interface
NMAT - Non-linear Material
MEXT - Extra Materialconstants
CONC - Properties of Concrete
STEE - Properties of Metals
TIMB - Properties of Timber
MASO - Masonry / Brickwork
SSLA - Stress-Strain Curves
SVAL - Cross-section values
SREC - Rectangle, T-beam, Plate
SCIR - Circular and Annular Sections
BORE - Bore Profile of a Sondation
BLAY - Layer of the Soil Strata
BBAX - Input of Axial Subgrade Parameters
BBLA - Input of Lateral Subgrade Parameters
HING - Hinged Connection Combinations for Beams
GRP - Group Control
TRUS - Truss-bar Elements
CABL - Cable Elements
BEAM - Beam Elements
ADEF - Beginning of Beam Segment Definition
BDIV - Input of Beam Segments
BSEC - Beam Sections
SUPP - Definition of Support Sections
QUAD - Plane Elements (Disks / Plates / Shells)
BRIC - Three-dimensional Solid Elements
SPRI - Spring Elements
BOUN - Distributed Elastic Support
FLEX - General Elastic Element
DAMP - Damping Elements
MASS - Concentrated Masses
Output Description
Nodal Values
Material Values
System Statistics
Cross-sectional Overview
Group Qualities
Plane Elements (2-D, QUAD)
Three-dimensional Solid Elements (3-D, BRIC)
Boundary Elements
Geometric Definitions (Bedding Profiles)
Bending Beams and Piles
Truss-bar Elements
Cable Elements
Springs
Examples
Angle Plate
Pointwise Supported Ceiling Plate
Gridwork
Plane Frame, Restrained in Space
Shell Structure
Reinforced Concrete Box
Calotte Shell
Examples in the Internet