13.2 Entity Specific Plotting

• General rules

  • Node entities are plotted with nodal displacements.

  • Line element entities are divided into a sequence of plots for each sub-entity. Each plot includes all plotting times. Plotting is in the x-y plane.

  • A 2D element entity (sub-entity for SB3) gets its own plot, i.e. each plotting time has its own plot. Plotting is in the x-y plane.

  • A 3D element entity like bending moments and normal/bending forces is plotted as 2D-projections onto the -plane which is generally assumed as grounding plane.

  • A 3D element sub-entity gets its own plot, i.e. plotting time has its own plot. Plotting is a x-y-z isometric view. This has to be activated by a plot option keyword.

• Scaling

  • A default scaling is computed automatically for all entities but may be superposed with individual scaling factors, see keywords for plot options below

• History

  • In case the option writeNodes is defined in <name>.opt.txt, see Section 11, the respective data pairs are plotted in x-y for all computed time instants.

• Plot options

  Details of plotting are ruled with an optional file <name>.plt.txt providing keywords and – separated with comma from keywords – plotting parameters, if required.

  Default values are taken if this file does not exist or if keywords with respect to a plotting item are not specified.

  • Keywords
    

    *PlotIimes,	sequence of float numbers separated by comma
    	time instances to plot – should be a subset of time instants specified for data output, see Section 12
    	default is all specified for output data, see Sections 12.3, 12.4
    *ScaleStress,	sequence of of pairs of a string and a float number
    	string is name of element set, see Section 10, number is corresponding superposed scaling factor
    	may be repeated in following lines to indicate more scaling pairs
    	default is 1.0
    *ScaleDispl,	float number
    	superposed scaling of default scaling for the displacement of node entities
    	default is 1.0
    *ScaleDispl2D,	float number
    	scaling of deformed structure for 2D element entities
    	default is 0.0
    *NoPostNode	skips plotting of node entities – default is plotting
    *NoPostElem1D	skips plotting of 1D element sub-entities – default is plotting
    *NoPostElem2D	skips plotting of stresses of 2D element entities – default is plotting
    *PostElem3D	activates plotting of node entities of 3D elements and 3D element sub-entities – default is skipping

    
    

• Plotting with module ConPlaD is slightly different.

  • This works for plates (CPS4,CPE4,CPS3,CPE3) and slabs (SB3) only.

  • Plotting is always automatically performed following a ConPlaD-computation.

  • Plotting of entities or sub-entities is superposed with digits indicating amount of required reinforcement.

    • Unit is reinforcement ratio in % for plates and reinforcement cross section in for slabs.

    • Horizontal digits indicate values for -direction, vertical digits for -direction.

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