Periodic Boundary

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XIEWENBO
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Periodic Boundary

Post by XIEWENBO » Tue Mar 08, 2016 12:41 am

What is a periodic boundary
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skamalzare
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Re: Periodic Boundary

Post by skamalzare » Tue Mar 08, 2016 6:51 am

Periodic boundaries enforce same deformations to assigned nodes. For example "equalDOF 12 14 1 2" enforces same deformations in 1st and 2nd DOFs to master node 12 and slave node 14.
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