Accessing a specific element's material stiffness.

Nero · Post by **Nero** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 9:24 am

Given an element number of a zeroLength element, and a direction how would I access that element's stiffness in the given direction? I dont mean from the interperater, but in a programmed object?

Example: I create a zero-length element, id 1, and it has material 1 in direction 1 and material 2 in direction 2. Is it possible, to grab the trialStiffness element 1's direction 2? Something like:
element1->materialInDir2->tTangent ???

Post by **fmk** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 10:33 am

suggest get it straight from the element.

element1->getTangentStiff()

Nero · Post by **Nero** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:04 am

fmk wrote:suggest get it straight from the element.

element1->getTangentStiff()

Thanks Frank.

Can you tell me the proper code to access an element from a given id? (Ex- the element1 portion of the code above)