Beam properties

Following are the items under this category:

Beam Unbalance

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This card (code 62.0) defines the beam residual bow by defining a station displacement in terms of a radius and angle. The GUI shown above is used to ask user for angular(in degrees) and radial displacements (in cm).

Following is a screen dump taken from roda input file for this card.



Axial load

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This card (code 5.0) allows the application of axial loads in either uniaxial tension or compression. The loads will be uniformly applied to the elements specified between the two stations.

Following is a screen dump taken from roda input file for this card.



Internal damping

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This card (code 8.0) specifies values fof element viscous and hysteretic internal damping, to be applied to eather a single or range of elements.

Following is a screen dump taken from roda input file for this card.



The user can also know the list of beam properties through the main UI menu item List->Roda beam props.-> option. below are the screen shots for the same.