beamGLForces {FEA}

beamGLForces

Description

Uses nodal displacements to determine global and local forces at each node

Usage

beamGLForces(beamP, beamT, Y, MoI, Length, GMat, BUDL, BND)

Arguments

beamP

Matrix (2 x n) of beam coordinates.

beamT

Matrix (2 x n) containing the number of the coordinate point as shown in beamP that connect to form a given beam (Discretization table).

Y

Elastic Modulus of material

MoI

Moment of Inertia

Length

Length of beam

GMat

Global stiffness matrix

BUDL

Column matrix for beam distributed load

BND

beam nodal displacement, output from function "beamNodeDis"

Value

Matrices of global and local forces. (Results in kN)

GForce

Large global force matrix.

Lforce

Large local force matrix.

Examples

data(beamGeo)
data(beamDime)
data(beamsUDL)
data(beamND)
data(beamGloMat)

Length = beamDime$Length
MoI = beamDime$MomentofInertia
BUDL = beamsUDL
BND = beamND
GMat = beamGloMat

GLforce = beamGLForces(beamGeo$beamP, beamGeo$beamT, beamGeo$Y, MoI, Length, GMat, BUDL, BND)