no elemental load in ShellMITC4 element

[jiangjian0131]

Hi, folks

There is no elemental load defined in ShellMITC4 element. Actually there is function 'addLoad' in it but it do nothing. Whether it is necessary to create a new elemental class named 'ShellUniformLoad' for shell element just like existing Beam2dUniformLoad for beam element.

Also I find a new elemental load class Surfaceload added in version 2.3.0 but there is no definition of the value of load. I am not sure how to use this.

So how can I make ShellMITC4 available for uniformly distributed load, using Surfaceload or creating new load class?




Jian Jiang
U.Edinburgh

[fmk]

the current shell element does not deal with ele load .. you can of course modify it if you want .. the person who wrote it is long gone and not working in this area anymore.