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Beams and Frames Program Guide

This document provides instructions for using Wilson's program to analyze plane frames with beams and frames. It describes the degrees of freedom, support conditions, forces, input file format, and gives an example of the input file for a continuous beam with two elements subjected to a uniform distributed load. Key steps include defining the node coordinates and restraints, beam properties, member forces, and ending the input file with a 0.

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Beams and Frames Program Guide

This document provides instructions for using Wilson's program to analyze plane frames with beams and frames. It describes the degrees of freedom, support conditions, forces, input file format, and gives an example of the input file for a continuous beam with two elements subjected to a uniform distributed load. Key steps include defining the node coordinates and restraints, beam properties, member forces, and ending the input file with a 0.

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Wilson's program for

Beams and frames

GV
Plane frames
• Having 3 DOF at each nodes ,
• U,V, theta
• Control data being same
• Number of nodes, number of elements
Difference from truss element
• Kode is different. Having 3 digits .
• U,V,Theta
• 1 means restrained 0 means free
• Fixed support - 111
• Hinged support -110
• Roller on floor - 010
• Roller on wall - 100
Force
• Force is different.
• Truss having nodal force only , but Beams and
frames having nodal force and member forces also
• We need to define member forces after the
member definition
To run
• To run the program, same procedure but
• Input file name to be copied is 2dfin.dat
• Output file is 2dfout.dat
• Exe file is plframe
• copy yourfilename 2dfin.dat
• kill
• plframe
• No need to give 6 after plframe
• Node definition syntax
• Node number,kode,x,y,fx,fy,m
• These fx,fy,m are model forces
• Member definition syntax is
• Mem num, nodei,nodej,Area, moment of inertia,Young's
mod
• For all values ,
• Right side , upwards and anticlockwise -Positive
• Left side , downwards and clockwise - Negative
• For the continuous beam shown input file be
• Continuous beam
• 3,2
• 1,111,0,0,0,0
• 2,110,5,0,0,0
• 3,111,8,0,0,0
• 1,1,2,area, moment of inertia,Young's mod
• 2,2,3,area, moment of inertia,Youngs mod
• After this member definition, 7th line, add the
member forces as fixed end moments and
reactions
• 1st beam having udl, conver to equavelent
moments and reactions.
• The syntax is
• Member number
• ti,vi,mi,tj,vj,mj
• ti - horizontal force at ith node
• vi- vertical force at ith node
• mi- moment at ith node
• tj - horizontal force at jth node
• vj- vertical force at jth node
• mj- moment at jth node
• For the first beam , vertical reaction is 7.5 kN (
upwards, positive) and FEM is 6.25 kNm (
anticlockwise, positive)
• For the second beam , vertical reaction is 7.5 kN (
upwards, positive) and FEM is 6.25 kNm (
clockwise, negative)
• So the first beam member force definition is
•1
• 0,7.5,6.25,0,7.5,-6.25
• For the second beam member force definition is
•2
• 0,6.48,7.2,0,3.52,-4.8
• Add 0 the end of the file
Input file
• Continuous beam
• 3,2
• 1,111,0,0,0,0
• 2,110,5,0,0,0
• 3,111,8,0,0,0
• 1,1,2,area, moment of inertia,Young's mod
• 2,2,3,area, moment of inertia,Youngs mod
• 1
• 0,7.5,6.25,0,7.5,-6.25
• 2
• 0,6.48,7.2,0,3.52,-4.8
• 0

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