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Alter to Separate SPC Forces into different categories


Alter Name    spc101a


Purpose

This alter organizes the calculated SPCForces by the type of         
constraint placed upon a DOF; e.g. was it a user-induced constraint  
such as the PS field on the GRID or an SPC card, or was it a DOF     
constrained by the AUTOSPC function.  User has further option of     
breaking the user-induced constraints into those DOF constrained by  
the GRID PS field and those on an SPC set.  Answers may be           
independently filtered to remove smaller SPCForces from the          
printouts.  Resultant vectors for SPCForce contributions are also    
calculated.                                                          


Solution Sequence

SOL 101.


Input
 
Executive Control

Include 'spc101a.alt'
 
Case Control

Request SPCFORCE output.
 
Bulk Data

The following optional parameters control how the SPCFORCES are 
printed in the output file.
        
  SPCLEVEL: Default = 0 (integer).  Default will separate       
            SPCForce output into AUTOSPC'd DOFs and modelled-in 
            (GRID/PS plus SPC set) DOFs.  Setting SPCLEVEL      
            to 1 will divide SPCForce output into three         
            separate groups: AUTOSPC, GRID/PS, and SPC sets.    
  TINYAUTO: Default = 0.0.  Acts as a filter on printed         
            SPCForces for those DOF constrained by AUTOSPC.     
            Any SPCForce smaller in magnitude than TINYAUTO    
            will NOT be printed.                                
  TINYSPC:  Default = 0.0.  Acts as a filter on printed         
            SPCForces for those DOF constrained by either       
            GRID/PS or SPC set cards.  Any SPCForce smaller     
            than TINYSPC will NOT be printed.                  
  GRDPNT:   Default = 0 (integer).  Allows user to have         
            SPCForce Resultants summed about this grid point in 
            a coordinate system parallel to the BASIC system.   

Output

Standard solution 101 output plus the ability to separate the
SPCFORCES into different categories.
 

Limitations

Multiple boundary conditions are not supported.

Sample Files

spc1011.dat  Sample run separating spcforces into different categories.   


Additional Documentation
 
None