Element recorder, section forces and deformation

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Hkoodiani
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Element recorder, section forces and deformation

Post by Hkoodiani » Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:02 pm

hello everyone.
I'm trying to read the Moment-rotation of a 3D fiber model. I have used forceBeamColumn element. when I'm putting a force and deformation recorder for the first integration point, the outputs consist of 4 columns output for each of them(force and deformation). does anybody know which one is related to which degree of freedom. in the site it just says
section:
force Fx Mx
deformation axial-strain curvature
somehow I'm sure the first one is related to the axial force and displacement. for me the 4th one is zero.
I'm trying to assess the P-M-M effect on the columns.
Many thanks for your help.

selimgunay
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Re: Element recorder, section forces and deformation

Post by selimgunay » Mon Jul 06, 2020 9:00 pm

If you use the xml option (<-xml $fileName>), you can see the headers for each column

Hkoodiani
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Re: Element recorder, section forces and deformation

Post by Hkoodiani » Tue Jul 07, 2020 10:15 am

so helpful. Thank you so much. do you know what is KappaZ and kappaY. are they rotation about Z and Y local axis?

selimgunay
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Re: Element recorder, section forces and deformation

Post by selimgunay » Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:16 pm

Yes they should be the curvatures

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