ModelShell Methods

accept an element visitor.

accept an element visitor.

accept an element visitor.

accept an element visitor.

accept an element visitor.

accept an element visitor.

accept an element visitor.

add an element load to the element.

add loads connected to this element to its feb-element.

enrich the given mesh with strain data of this element.

enrich the given mesh with stress data of this element.

Construct a mesh with coloring according to the given result-values and add it to the given list of meshes.

create feb-element and add it to the feb-model.

enrich the given mesh with utilization data of this element.

Returns the area of the element.

Returns area of the sub-element.

Clone the grass-element on which this model-element is based and linked to.

calculate characteristic length of the element.

clears the loads of the element. Make sure to clone it before clearing the loads in order to avoid side effects.

Clone the model element.

Clone the grass-element on which this model-element is based and linked to.

return the cloned grass-element on which this model-element is based or null.

calculate the center of gravity of the element.

update the elements node indexes with those of the underlying finite element. This is necessary when topology of the feb-model changed.

calculates axial deformation- and bending energy stored in the element.

return displaced local coordinate system and its origin.

Returns the shell normal vector for each node of the shell.

add lines of cross section forces diagrams to curves or meshes.

Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.

Returns the shell mesh of the membrane.

Gets the underlying feb-mesh of the membrane.

Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Determines the states in predefined discrete points of the element.

Serves as the default hash function.

Serialize ModelElement.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

checks whether an Element lies partly inside a given Brep.

create local coo-sys of undeformed element.

create local coo-sys of deformed element.

Calculates the mean displacement of an element.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

return mid-point of deformed element.

determine extreme axial strains in model for the currently visible loadcase. Add result of element if necessary.

return reference point on local z-axis for local coordinate system being situated at first element node.

calculates resultant normal force (N), shear force (V) and moment (M) in an element.

return scaled state at given element, location; superimpose loadcases if lc_num is smaller than 0; unscaled load-case for lc_num % model.numLC if lc_num >= model.numLC (is used for retrieval of beam results).

return scaled state at given element, location; superimpose loadcases if lc_num is smaller than 0; unscaled load-case for lc_num % model.numLC if lc_num >= model.numLC (is used for retrieval of beam results).

set the element and fe_element index.

set activation state of element and synchronize it with fe-model. An extra fe-model-generation step is not necessary. Is therefore fast.

set the node indexes of the element.

change the element if nodes snap together according to the given list of node indexes. returns true if the element was completely snapped.

The element with index ind is the seed of an element split. Make all splits in the model that are necessary so that feb-model and model are synchronized.

Gets the surface area of the element in [m2].

Returns a string that represents the current object.

returns the eccentricity of the element in global coordinates.

return utilization of shell patch for given loadcase lc.

Get volume of the element in [m3?].

return weight of the element in kN.