Use this dialog to specify the loading conditions of a load case.
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- Click Loads
Load Definition
Note: At least one load case must be defined, before you can use this dialog. - Click Loads
Node tab
When the Node tab is selected, the dialog displays the following buttons:
- Opens the dialog for defining nodal force.
- Opens the dialog for defining imposed displacements for support nodes.
- Opens the dialog for defining the values of forces at a point in a structure (available for: plate and shell structures, plane stress and plane deformation structures, axisymmetric structures, and volumetric structures).
- Deletes a nodal load type. To remove a load from a structure, select the load type to be deleted and indicate the nodes from which to delete the load.
Bar tab
When the Bar tab is selected, the dialog displays the following buttons:
- Opens the dialog for defining uniform loads.
- Opens the dialog for defining trapezoidal loads.
- Opens the dialog for defining uniform moment loads.
- Opens the dialog for defining concentrated loads along the element's length.
- Opens the dialog for defining dilatation values.
- Opens the dialog for defining thermal loads.
- Opens the dialog for defining planar loads.
- Deletes a nodal load type. To remove a load from the structure, select the load type to be deleted and indicate the bars from which to delete the load.
Surface tab
When the Surface tab is selected, the dialog displays the following buttons:
- Opens the dialog where uniform loads acting on planar finite elements can be defined.
- Opens the dialog where linear loads acting on planar finite elements can be defined.
- Opens the dialog where planar loads (on 3 points) acting on planar finite elements can be defined.
- Opens the dialog where loads due to hydrostatic pressure acting on planar finite elements can be defined.
- Opens the dialog where uniform loads acting on a contour can be defined.
- Opens the dialog where planar loads (on 3 points) acting on a contour can be defined.
- Opens the dialog where thermal loads acting on planar finite elements can be defined.
- Opens the dialog where load on edges can be defined.
- Deletes the type of load acting on planar finite elements. To remove a load, select the load type to be deleted and indicate the elements from which to delete the load.
Self-weight and mass tab
When the Self-weight and mass tab is selected, the dialog displays the following buttons:
- Automatically applies self-weight to all structure elements. The load acts along the Z axis of the global coordinate system. Its orientation is opposite to the axis orientation (See also: Comments concerning automatic assigning of a self-weight load to a whole structure).
- Opens the dialog in which the direction of self-weight action can be defined.
- Opens the dialog in which body forces can be defined.
- Opens the dialog in which centrifugal and angular acceleration forces can be defined.
- Opens the dialog in which the values of nodal masses can be defined.
- Opens the dialog in which the values of bar masses can be defined.
- Deletes the self-weight load. To remove a load, indicate the elements from which the load is to be removed.