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BH.oM.Structure.Results.MeshForce

Gives a full set of shell and membrane forces at a discrete location in the Panel/FEMesh.

Class structure

Implemented interfaces and base types

The MeshForce is inheriting from the following base type(s) and implements the following interfaces:

Properties

Defining properties

The following properties are defined on the class

Name Type Description Quantity
NXX double Axial/membrane force in x-direction. ForcePerUnitLength [N/m]
NYY double Axial/membrane force in y-direction. ForcePerUnitLength [N/m]
NXY double Axial/membrane force in xy-direction. ForcePerUnitLength [N/m]
MXX double Bending moment in x-direction. ForcePerUnitLength [N/m]
MYY double Bending moment in y-direction. MomentPerUnitLength [N.m/m]
MXY double Bending moment in xy-direction. MomentPerUnitLength [N.m/m]
VX double Shear force in x-direction. ForcePerUnitLength [N/m]
VY double Shear force in y-direction. ForcePerUnitLength [N/m]

Inherited properties

The following properties are inherited from the base class of the object

Name Type Description Quantity
ObjectId IComparable Id of the FEMesh/Panel that this result belongs to. When extracted from an analysis package, the object id will match the format and value used in that particular package. -
NodeId IComparable Id of the Node in the mesh that this result belongs to. Will be empty for smoothing types not relating to Nodes. When extracted from an analysis package, the Node id will correspond to the node id in the software and match the format and value used in that particular package. -
MeshFaceId IComparable Id of the FEFace that this result belongs to. Will be empty for smoothing types not relating to Faces. When extracted from an analysis package, the face id will correspond to the face id in the software and match the format and value used in that particular package. -
ResultCase IComparable Identifier for the Loadcase or LoadCombination that the result belongs to. Is generally name or number of the loadcase, depending on the analysis package. -
ModeNumber int Positive index, starting at one. Only set for cases with modal outputs such as dynamic cases. -
TimeStep double Time step for time history results. -
MeshResultLayer MeshResultLayer - -
LayerPosition double Position within the element thickness that result is extracted from, normalised to 1. I.e. 0 = lower surface, 0.5 = middle, 1 = top surface. -
Smoothing MeshResultSmoothingType - -
Orientation Basis Vector basis required in order to report results in a particular direction, for example, for anisotropic materials. -

Derived properties

The following properties are defined as extension methods in one of the BHoM_Engines

Name Type Description Quantity Engine
AllIdentifierProperties List<string> Gets the name of all properties of the result that are of identifier types. This is all properties tagged with any IdentifierAttribute. - Results_Engine
ObjectIdentifierProperties List<string> Gets the name of all properties of the result that are of ObjectIdentifier types. This is all properties tagged with the ObjectIdentifierAttribute. - Results_Engine
ResultPropertyKeys List<string> Returns the result value carrying properties available for the result type provided. Currently only supported for IResultItem and IResultCollection<IResultItem> type results. - Results_Engine
ScenarioIdentifierProperties List<string> Gets the name of all properties of the result that are of Scenario types. This is all properties tagged with the ScenarioIdentifierAttribute. - Results_Engine

Code and Schema

C# implementation

C#
public class MeshForce : BH.oM.Structure.Results.MeshElementResult,
BH.oM.Analytical.Results.IMeshElementResult,
BH.oM.Analytical.Results.IResult,
BH.oM.Base.IObject,
System.IComparable<BH.oM.Analytical.Results.IResult>,
BH.oM.Base.IImmutable,
BH.oM.Structure.Results.IStructuralResult,
BH.oM.Analytical.Results.IObjectIdResult,
BH.oM.Analytical.Results.ICasedResult,
BH.oM.Analytical.Results.ITimeStepResult,
BH.oM.Analytical.Results.IResultItem

Assembly: Structure_oM.dll

The C# class definition is available on github:

All history and changes of the class can be found by inspection the history.

JSON Schema implementation

The object is defined as a JSON schema. You can validate a JSON instance against this schema by reference. To do this, use the schema reference below in a validator like this one.

JSON Schema
{
 "$ref" : "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BHoM/BHoM_JSONSchema/develop/Structure_oM/Results/MeshForce.json"
}

The JSON Schema is available on github here: