3-104 Tutorial 3

FORCES FOR ELEMENT 6

This information consists of the force and moment values at each

of the 4 corner nodes of element 6. A typical sample is presented
below.

ELEMENT FORCES FORCE,LENGTH UNITS= KG METE

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JOINT FX FY FZ MX MY MZ

ELE.NO. 6 FOR LOAD CASE 1

6 0.0000E+00 4.5323E+02 0.0000E+00 -1.1313E+03 0.0000E+00 7.9082E+02
8 0.0000E+00 5.0615E+02 0.0000E+00 -3.2047E+02 0.0000E+00 2.3981E+02
12 0.0000E+00 -7.2078E+02 0.0000E+00 1.0346E-03 0.0000E+00 -1.3733E-03
11 0.0000E+00 -2.3860E+02 0.0000E+00 -4.6697E+02 0.0000E+00 -6.0136E+02

The corner forces are in the global coordinate system. These values
may be used to create a free body diagram of the element and
verify that the element is in equilibrium. In this case for example,
the FX and FZ forces are zero, and sum of the FY forces is also
zero.

The complete text of the output file is shown in the next few pages.