*beamsectionsetdatageneric

Updates the data for a generic type beam section.

Syntax

*beamsectionsetdatageneric double_array number_of_doubles string_array number_of_strings beam_sect_id

Type

HyperMesh Tcl Modify Command

Description

Updating a generic beam section requires two commands of which this is the second. This command will update all data for a generic type beam section. The command *beamsectionsetdataroot should precede use of this command.

Beam section data cannot be updated piecemeal with this command; all data must be known for the beam and sent in as arguments.

Inputs

double_array

The ID of the double array that contains the additional input parameters. The double array is created using the *createdoublearray command. This should always be set to 1.

The contents of this array are the results values for the beam section. The values should be in the same order as those listed in the string_array. Any results not given will be set to zero.

number_of_doubles

Integer indicating the size (number of doubles) of the double array created using *createdoublearray.

string_array

The ID of the string array that contains the additional input parameters. The string array is created using the *createstringarray command. This should always be set to 1.

The contents of this array are the identifying names of the results types for a beam section. The correct syntax is required to recognize the results types. The following is a list of all results types. Not all types need to be given, but those that are not will be set to zero.

Results Type	Identifier
Area	area
Centroid location	centroid [0]	centroid [1]
Max coord ext - centroidal	coordExt [0]	coordExt[1]
Max coord ext - principle	coordExtP[0]	coordExtP[1]
Elastic Torsional Modulus	Emt
Plastic Torsional Modulus	Pmt
Moment of Inertia - centroidal	ICentroid[0]	ICentroid[1]	ICentroid [2]
Moment of Inertia - principle	IPrinciple[0]	IPrinciple[1]
Moment of Inertia - local	IUser[0]	IUser[1]	IUser[2]
Angle	theta
Torsional Constant	J
Warping Constant	Gamma
Radius of Gyration	radiusG
Elastic Sectional Modulus - centroidal	S[0]	S[1]
Elastic Sectional Modulus - principle	SP[0]	SP[1]
Shear Center - local	shearCenter[0]	shearCenter[1]
Shear Center -principle	shearCenterP[0]	shearCenterP[1]
Shear Deformation Coefficient	ShearDeform[0]	ShearDeform[1]	ShearDeform[2]
Shear Factors	shearStiff[0]	shearStiff[1]	shearStiff[2]
Torsion Coefficient	torsionCoeff[0]	torsionCoeff[1]
Plastic Section Modulus - centroidal	Z[0]	Z[1]
Plastic Section Modulus - principle	ZP[0]	ZP[1]
Number of Cells	NumberOfCells
Cell areas	Cell1	Cell2	Cell3
	Cell4	Cell5	Cell6
	Cell7	Cell8	Cell9
	Cell10	Cell11	Cell12

number_of_strings

Integer indicating the size (number of strings) of the string array created using *createstringarray.

beam_sect_id

The ID of the shell or solid beam section to update.

Examples

To update the parameter data for a shell type section with ID 4. Only the area and centroidal moment-of-inertia values are defined, all others are set to 0.

Note: This command should be used in tandem with *beamsectionsetdataroot as follows:

*beamsectionsetdataroot 4 1 0 1 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
*createdoublearray 56 2 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
*createstringarray 56 "area" "centroid[0]" "centroid[1]" "coordExt[0]" "coordExt[1]" "coordExtP[0]" "coordExtP[1]" "Emt" "Pmt" "Icentroid[0]" "Icentroid[1]" "Icentroid[2]" "Iprincipal[0]" "Iprincipal[1]" "Iuser[0]" "Iuser[1]" "Iuser[2]" "J" "gamma" "radiusG" "S[0]" "S[1]" "shearCenter[0]" "shearCenter[1]" "shearCenterP[0]" "shearCenterP[1]" "ShearDeform[0]" "ShearDeform[1]" "ShearDeform[2]" "PrincipalShear[0]" "PrincipalShear[1]" "shearStiff[0]" "shearStiff[1]" "shearStiff[2]" "torsionCoeff[0]" "torsionCoeff[1]" "Z[0]" "Z[1]" "ZP[0]" "ZP[1]" "SP[0]" "SP[1]" "theta" "NumberOfCells" "Cell1" "Cell2" "Cell3" "Cell4" "Cell5" "Cell6" "Cell7" "Cell8" "Cell9" "Cell10" "Cell11" "Cell12"
*beamsectionsetdatageneric 1 56 1 56 4

Errors

Incorrect usage results in a Tcl error. To detect errors, you can use the catch command:

if { [ catch {command_name...} ] } {
   # Handle error
}

Version History

11.0.120