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002085
2021-08-16

Form-Finding | Features

  • Form-finding of tension-loaded membrane and cable structures
  • Compression form-finding of member-shaped supporting structures
  • Form search taking into account the entire system with subsequent design
  • High quality form-finding by using the iterative URS method
  • Pneumatic prestress by means of gas pressure loads
  • Use of an ideal gas in a membrane
  • Geometric and force-based form-finding specifications for member components
  • Isotropic and orthotropic surface prestress
  • Stabilized form-finding for conical shapes with tangential and radial prestress
  • Organization of all form-finding specifications in one load case
  • Application for isotropic and orthotropic materials with distinct warp and weft direction
  • Consideration of nonlinear material laws by means of the "Nonlinear Material Behavior" add-on
  • Staggered form-finding processes and temporary model supports by means of the "Construction Stages Analysis (CSA)" add-on
  • Output of a universally applicable form-found initial state with impressed strains
  • Graphical form evaluation by means of colored coordinate and inclination plots
  • Automatic assignment of the initial state by load combination wizards
  • Display of all results on the initial and deformed shape as well as the incremental results on the respective deformed element geometry


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