extra information about Corotational transformation

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extra information about Corotational transformation

Post by hshoar » Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:15 am

Hello,

can anyone explain a bit more about Corotational transformation? my main problem is about this sentence written in command manual: "Currently the transformation does not deal with element loads and will ignore any that are applied to the element". what exactly will happen according to this notice?
I would greatly appreciate if you can give me more information about this.

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Re: extra information about Corotational transformation

Post by mhscott » Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:12 am

Member, e.g., distributed, loads are ignored because they can either be applied in the local or corotating frame of reference. We simply didn't implement either option!

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Re: extra information about Corotational transformation

Post by Tas » Fri Jan 24, 2014 12:17 am

May i ask a question too: When we use Corrotational transformation, do the displacements obtained from Recorders concern global or local coordinates?

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Re: extra information about Corotational transformation

Post by mhscott » Fri Jan 24, 2014 8:47 am

The node recorders will give you responses with respect to global coordinates

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