Question about material: how to get the domain information?

arpegio · Post by **arpegio** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:45 am

Hello,

I am now making a new material for my structural analysis and I want use a zero length (or truss) element to utilize this material.

How can I get the nodal displacements and velocities of all the dofs in the material level? It seems like I need to access to the domain, but I don't know how to do... I'm not sure whether this kind of access is possible or not in the 'material class'.

Thank you in advance.

Post by **fmk** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 6:51 pm

look in SRC/OPS_Globals.h, there is a pointer to a global Domain object that the element is supposed to be set before elements enter their computations.