Free warping analysis

FreeWarping

nsteps #(in)

Free warping analysis computes the deplanation function of cross section with arbitrary shape. It is done by solving the Laplace's equation with automatically generated boundary conditions corresponding to the free warping problem.

This type of analysis supports only TrWarp elements and WarpingCS cross sections. One external node must be defined for each warping cross section. The coordinates of this node can be arbitrary but this node must be defined with parametr DofIDMask 1 24 and one boundary condition which represents relative twist acting on corresponding warping cross section. No additional loads make sence in free warping analysis.

Parameter nsteps indicates the number of loading cases. Series of loading cases is maintained as sequence of time-steps. For each load case an auxiliary time-step is generated with time equal to load case number. Load vectors for each load case are formed as load vectors at this auxiliary time.