Section force component?

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DUTma
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Section force component?

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Description:After I use command "recorder Element -file ele1.out -time -ele 1 section 1 force",there are eight components in result file. After removing the time column, there are 7 columns.
Question: What's means these seven columns?
DUTma
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Re: Section force component?

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Hi everyone :
I had found answer,they are P,Mz,My,T,Vy,Vz and T in local coordinate system.
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Re: Section force component?

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Thanks. Could you clarify, is the last column torsion in the local coordinate system ?
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Re: Section force component?

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selimgunay wrote:
> Thanks. Could you clarify, is the last column torsion in the local
> coordinate system ?
My dear friend:
i used <-xml $filemame> command, and there are -xml metadata labelling each column of data in output file including P,Mz,My,T,Vy,Vz,T and I am sure that Mz is in local coordinate system, so I think other component is also in local.
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