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CSEC8 – Curved Quadrilateral Section Element

Description

Defines a planar 2nd order, eight-noded element used in the definition of arbitrary beam cross-sections.

Format

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

CSEC8

EID

PID

G1

G2

G3

G4

G5

G6

 

 

G7

G8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

CSEC8

10

100

3

4

5

6

13

14

 

 

15

16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field

Contents

EID

Element identification number.

No default (Integer > 0)

PID

A PSEC section property entry identification number.

Default = EID (Integer > 0)

G#

GRIDS section grid points identification number.

No default (Integer > 0)

Comments

1.Element identification numbers within a section definition must be unique with respect to all other element identification numbers within the same section definition.
2.Grid points G1 through G8 must be numbered as shown here:

cquad8_1

3.This entry is only valid when it appears between the BEGIN and END statements.

See Also:

Optimization of Arbitrary Beam Sections

Arbitrary Beam Section Optimization