About the loadFactor argument in the addLoad method

pankotso · Post by **pankotso** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:03 am

Hello Dr McKenna,

I would like to ask you if the loadFactor argument that is used when adding a load in the element (e.g. DispBeamColumn2d::addLoad(ElementalLoad *theLoad, double loadFactor)) is the same loadFactor as descibed in your thesis (p. 192) about dynamic load balancing or if it has another purpose. Thank you!

Panagiotis, University of Edinburgh

Post by **fmk** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:36 am

the loads are just reference loads, the loadfactor in the method call is the value by which the reference loads must be multiplied for this time step, it has nothing to do with parallel processing.

pankotso · Post by **pankotso** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 10:57 am

Thank you very much Dr McKenna. This is what we understanded too. There was just this confusion because of the loadFactor method in your thesis. Thank you very much for clearing this issue.