Total force on some mesh elements

Submitted by rob1 on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 15:27

Hello,

I would like to compute the total force acting on only some portion of a stl mesh.
I know that dump mesh/vtk output the stress components.

What I am looking for is to obtain an output like
fix ... ave/time ... f_cad[1] f_cad[2] f_cad[3] file.dat
but not on the whole cad, only in some parts of it.

Maybe should I split the cad file in different parts and import different stl files?

Thanks,
rob1

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aaigner | Mon, 11/23/2015 - 19:57

You can only calculate the force acting on the whole geometry. You have to split your mesh.

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