gauss points coordinates

afuribe0 · Post by **afuribe0** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 5:26 pm

Hi, I need to know which are the coordinates of the gauss points in the quaElement. Thank you.

e.roknabadi · Post by **e.roknabadi** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:00 am

in source code:

:Element (tag, ELE_TAG_FourNodeQuad),
theMaterial(0), connectedExternalNodes(4),
Q(8), pressureLoad(8), thickness(t), pressure(p), Ki(0)
{
pts[0][0] = -0.5773502691896258;
pts[0][1] = -0.5773502691896258;
pts[1][0] = 0.5773502691896258;
pts[1][1] = -0.5773502691896258;
pts[2][0] = 0.5773502691896258;
pts[2][1] = 0.5773502691896258;
pts[3][0] = -0.5773502691896258;
pts[3][1] = 0.5773502691896258;