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Revision as of 09:21, 31 October 2011


Contents

General Description

Element Type

  • This beam element is a 2 node linear 3D-beam taking into account shear deformation (Timoshenko-beam element).
  • This beam element has 6 DOFs per node (three translations and three rotations)
  • The stiffness matrix is hard-coded, thus not needing any integration (and obviously limited to linear applications).

Degrees of Freedom

For the Beam1 element use the 3 translatoric degrees of freedom DISP_X, DISP_Y, DISP_Z and the 3 rotatoric degrees of freedom ROT_X, ROT_Y, ROT_Z.


Input Parameters

Parameter Description

Compulsory Parameters
Parameter Values, Default(*) Description
MAT EL-MAT int Number for the used Material

e.g. MAT=EL-MAT 1

AREA Definition of the cross-sectional area of the beam
IYY, IZZ Definition of the moments of inertia
Optional Parameters
KY, KZ 0 Shear correction factor; if 0 or no value specified, shear is not taken into account (Bernouolli-beam theory)

Example of a Complete Input Block

EL-PROP 1 : BEAM1
MAT= EL-MAT 1
AREA=5.555  IYY=1.222  IZZ=1.333
KY=1.4   KZ=1.5

Use of the shear correction factors KY and KZ

The shear correction factors KY and KZ depend on the cross section of the beam. For a rectangle, KY resp. KZ are equal to 1.2, which gives a factor of α=1/Ki=5/6.

Element Loading

For the moment, only nodal forces in the three global directions can be applied (i.e. Fx, Fy, Fz).

Pressure

  • not defined yet

Dead Load

  • not defined yet

Snow Load

  • not defined yet


Theory

The element implementation follows mainly the implementation of a linear 3D-beam element in FELyX [1], Schwarz [2] and Wunderlich [3].

References

  1. https://www.rdb.ethz.ch/projects/project.php?proj_id=8314
  2. Schwarz, H.: Methode der Finiten Elemente, Teubner, 1991
  3. Wunderlich, W.: Statik der Stabtragwerke, Teubner, 2004




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