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Point Spring Supports Table

Function

  • You can input or modify the degree of freedom constraint data of arbitrary nodes in a Spreadsheet format table using midas Civil's Table Tool.

 

Call

From the main menu, select [Boundary] tab > [Tables] group > [Boundary Tables] > [Point Spring Supports]

 

Input

(refer to "Point Spring Supports")

Please refer to the documentation or user guide for the Table Tool to learn how to input or modify the following data.

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Node : Node number

 

Type : Type of springs (Linear / Compression-only / Tension-only / Multi-Linear)

 

SDx : Spring stiffness in GCS X-direction (Node's local x-axis direction)

 

SDy : Spring stiffness in GCS Y-direction (Node's local y-axis direction)

 

SDz : Spring stiffness in GCS Z-direction (Node's local z-axis direction)

 

SRx : Rotational spring stiffness about GCS X-axis (Node's local x-axis)

 

SRy : Rotational spring stiffness about GCS Y-axis (Node's local y-axis)

 

SRz : Rotational spring stiffness about GCS Z-axis (Node's local z-axis)

 

Damping : Damping constant

 

Cx : Damping constant in GCS X-direction (Node's local x-axis direction)

 

Cy : Damping constant in GCS Y-direction (Node's local y-axis direction)

 

Cz : Damping constant in GCS Z-direction (Node's local z-axis direction)

 

CRx : Rotational damping constant about GCS X-axis (Node's local x-axis)

 

CRy : Rotational damping constant about GCS Y-axis (Node's local y-axis)

 

CRz : Rotational damping constant about GCS Z-axis (Node's local z-axis)

 

Stiffness : The stiffness of tension-only/compression-only spring

 

Direction : Node local axis direction in which a spring is assigned

 

X : X direction component of a vector which accounts for the direction of a spring

 

Y : Y direction component of a vector which accounts for the direction of a spring

 

Z : Z direction component of a vector which accounts for the direction of a spring

 

Force-Deformation Function : Function name in which the hysteresis characteristics of multi-linear hysteresis stiffness are defined.

 

Group : Boundary Group in which the entered boundary conditions are included

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