Tendons tab
Edit tendon groups.
The upper portion of the tab is used to input data common to all tendons in one tendon group.
Setting | Description |
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Group name | Select the current group name using the drop-down arrow. |
Setting | Description |
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Info | General description of the tendon group. |
Material | Material of the tendons of one group. The material can be selected from a list. |
Start Offset | Offset for the tendon numbers for all tendons in one group. (Tendon Number = Group Offset + Number of particular tendon). |
Tendons | Number of tendons in the tendon profile. It is copied by default for all tendons of one group and can be changed for each individual tendon afterwards. |
At | Nominal area of one tendon of the tendon profile. |
Ad | Nominal area of one duct of the tendon profile. |
Beta | Accidental deviation angle. |
Friction | Cooeficient of friction between tendon and duct. |
Tendon No | Opens the Tendon number dialog, which is used to renumber all of the tendons in a group. The number of the first tendon has to be entered and the step for numbering the following tendons has to be chosen. |
Stress labels | Opens the Stress labels dialog, which is used to rename all of the stress labels in a group. The name of the first stress label (e.g., CS1) has to be entered and the numbering step for the following stress labels has to be chosen (e.g., for step 1: CS1, CS2, CS3 etc.). |
The lower portion of the dialog tab contains options for performing particular actions in the tendon group.
Setting | Description |
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T.point offset | Opens the Replace dialog, which is used to point names or parts of it in accordance to the input. It can be performed for the active tendon or for all tendons in the tendon group. |
Elems of Geom | (For obsolete method only) Fills in the lengths of the elements in accordance to the element subdivisions in the geometry module (if defined there). |
Number of elements | Opens the Change number of elements dialog, which is used to change the display of element numbers in the current schedule group used for the stage actions definition (outermost left column in the window). |