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Fields Panel - Stiffness Tab

Fields Panel - Stiffness Tab

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Fields Panel - Stiffness Tab

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The Stiffness tab on the Fields panel allows you to enter stiffness values into a 6x6 matrix.  The stiffness values along the diagonal of the matrix represent stiffness in the direction of displacement, whereas the other values represent cross-coupling stiffness.

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Fields panel - Stiffness tab

[k]

is a 6x6 stiffness matrix relating force to deflection.

Rows and Columns

The rows and columns from the top left are:

X, Y, Z, Rx, Ry, Rz

Edit

Activating the checkbox allows you to make edits to the entire matrix.

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Clicking this button allows you to define an MDL expression for any one of the values