2.7 Quick Component Reference
License
License | Returns the program version, license information and can be used to manage the license file. |
Params
Karamba3D introduces seven new classes for defining structural models and corresponding containers:
Cross-section | Container for cross section objects | |
Element | Container for finite elements | |
Element Set | Container for ordered groups of elements | |
Joint | Container for connectivity conditions between elements | |
Load | Container for load objects | |
Material | Container for materials | |
Model | Container for models | |
Support | Container for supports |
Model
This subcategory contains components for assembling a model, converting geometry into finite elements and defining support conditions.
Assemble Model | Creates a finite element model by collecting given entities (points, beams, shells, supports, loads, cross sections, materials, . . . ). | |
Disassemble Model | Decomposes a model into its components. | |
Modify Model | Changes the model's nodal positions. | |
Activate Element | Activates the elements of a model according to the activation list. Uses the soft kill approach for inactive elements. | |
Create Linear Element | Multi-component for creates beams and truss elements with default properties from given lines, node indices or connectivity diagrams. | |
| Creates elements from given lines. | |
| Creates a truss element from a given line which carries axial loads only. | |
| Creates beam elements base on the indexes of their end-points. | |
| Uses a connectivity diagram to create beam elements. | |
Mesh to Shell | Creates shells with default properties from given meshes. Quad faces are split to triangles. | |
Modify Element | Multi-component for modifying elements. Works either directly on an element or indirectly as an autonomous agent: | |
| Modifies beams only | |
| Modifies shells only | |
Disassemble Element | Decomposes elements into their components. | |
Orientate Elem | Decomposes elements into their components: | |
| Sets the local Z-axis of beams according to a given vector and adds a rotation angle DAlpha about the longitudinal axis. Flips beam direction according to a given x-vector. | |
| Sets the local X- and Z-orientation using global coordinates. | |
Connected Parts | Returns groups of interconnected lines of the model. | |
Make Beam-Set | Puts beams designated by their beam identifier into a group. | |
Dispatch Elements | Selects elements according to a given identifier and puts all incoming elements in two groups: selected or rejected. The identifier may be the element index, name or a regular expression. | |
Select Elements | Selects elements of a model based on their identifier, colour, cross section, material, length or element type. | |
Point-Mass | Attaches a point mass to a node of given index or position. Does not result in additional weight, only translational inertia. | |
Support | Creates supports at nodes of given node-indexes or node-coordinates. Lets you select translations/rotations which should be zero and the support orientation with respect to the global or a local coordinate system. |
Load
The components in this subcategory let one define and manipulate external actions which impact a structure.
Loads | Multi-component for defining loads: | |
| Creates gravity from a specified direction vector for given load-cases. | |
| Creates point loads at points of given index or position. | |
| Sets initial axial strains on beams. | |
| Imposes a temperature difference on an element with respect to its initial temperature at construction. | |
| Creates approximately equivalent point- and line-loads from a constant surface load on a mesh. The constant surface load is defined by one vector. | |
| Creates approximately equivalent point- and line-loads from a variable surface load on a mesh. The variable surface load is defined by one vector for each mesh face. The longest list principle applies when the mesh-faces outnumber the load-vectors. | |
Beam Load | Multi-component for specifying loads which act on beams and trusses | |
| Places a concentrated force- or moment-load on a point along the element axis. | |
| Uniformly distributed force- or moment-load within an arbitrarily placed interval along the element axis. | |
| Imposes a displacement or rotation discontinuity at a given position along the element. | |
| Defines imperfections for beams under normal forces. | |
| Places a poly linear distributed load on an element. | |
| Sets a trapezoidal distributed load on a given interval of the element axis. | |
Disassemble Mesh Load | Splits a mesh-load into corresponding line- and point-loads | |
Prescribed Displacement | Prescribes displacements at nodes of given node-indexes or node-coordinates. Select translations or rotations which should be prescribed. For load-cases with no displacements prescribed this will create a support. | |
Disassemble Load-Case-Combination | Outputs the formula texts, names and factors of the load-cases a load-case-combination contains. | |
Load-Case-Combination Settings | Specifies the calculation parameters (e.g. Th.I or Th.II) to be used for analyzing a load-case-combination. | |
Load-Case-Combinator | Creates load-case-combinations based on existing load-cases and provided combination rules (e.g. "ULS=1.35*G+1.50*Q") |
Cross Section
Cross Sections | Multi-component for creating cross sections: | |
| Creates rectangular, trapezoid and triangular hollow cross sections. | |
| Creates circular hollow cross sections. | |
| Creates I-shaped cross sections. | |
| Lets you set the height and material of a shell with constant cross section. | |
| Lets you set the height and material of each face of a shell. | |
| A standard reinforced concrete cross section consists of four layers of orthogonal reinforcement. This component allows to define such a cross section which is constant throughout a shell. | |
| Same as above, lets one set the reinforced concrete cross section properties for each shell face separately. | |
| Defines the spring stiffness of an element. | |
| Creates filled rectangular, trapezoid and triangular cross sections. | |
Disassemble Cross Section | Retrieves properties of a cross section. | |
Beam-Joint Agent | Crawls around in the model and adds joints to beams on the basis of geometric relations. Is of type cross section. | |
Beam-Joints | Adds hinges at the end-points of beams. Is of type cross sections. | |
Eccentricity on Beam | Sets the eccentricity of a cross section relative to the element axis in global coordinates. | |
Eccentricity on Cross Section | Sets the eccentricity of a cross section relative to the element axis in local beam coordinates. | |
Modify Cross Section | Multi-component for modifying cross sections. Works either directly on a cross section object or indirectly as an autonomous agent: | |
| Modifies beam cross sections only. | |
| Modifies shell cross sections only. | |
Cross Section Range Selector | Lets you select cross sections by country, shape, family or maximum depth or width. | |
Cross Section Matcher | Returns for a cross section the best fitting cross section contained in a given list. The matched cross section is equal or better in all mechanical aspects at minimum weight. | |
Cross Section Selector | Lets you select cross sections by name, regular expression or index from a list of cross sections. | |
Generate Cross Section Table | Converts a list of cross sections into a string which can be streamed as a csv-file and used as a cross section table. | |
Read Cross Section Table from File | Reads cross section data from a csv-file. |
Material
Material Properties | Sets the characteristic parameters of an isotropic or orthotropic material. | |
Material Selection | Lets you select a material by name, regular expression or index from a list of materials. | |
Read Material Table from File | Reads a list of materials from a table given in csv-format. | |
Disassemble Material | Outputs the physical properties of a material. |
Algorithms
Analyze | Calculates the deflections of a given model using first order theory. | |
AnalyzeThII | Calculates the deflections of a given model including the effect of axial or in-plane forces. | |
Analyze Nonlinear WIP | Handles calculations involving large deformations. Is work in progress: the speed of convergence will be improved in future releases. Currently it works best for beams, but can also handle shell structures. | |
Large Deformation Analysis | Does an incremental geometrically non-linear analysis for loads in load case zero. Return displacements only, no stresses of cross section forces. | |
Buckling Modes | Calculates the buckling-modes and buckling load-factors of the given model under normal forces . | |
Eigen Modes | Calculates the eigenmodes of the given model according to the special eigenvalue problem. | |
Natural Vibrations | Calculates the natural vibrations of the given model. | |
Optimize Cross Section | Iteratively selects optimum cross sections for beams, trusses and shells. | |
BESO for Beams | Optimizes the topology of beams in a structure by using Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization. | |
BESO for Shells | Optimizes the topology of shells in a structure by using Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization. | |
Optimize Reinforcement | Performs reinforcement design for shells. It uses linear elastic cross section forces and the assumption of zero tensile concrete strength for determining reinforcement quantities. | |
Tension/Compression Eliminator | Removes beams or trusses under axial tension or compression. By default compression members will be removed. |
Results
Model View | Lets you inspect the general properties of the model. | |
Deformation-Energy | Retrieves deformation energies of the elements of the model. | |
Nodal Displacements | Returns nodal displacements: translations in global x-, y-, and z-direction; rotations about the global x-, y- and z-axis. | |
Principal Strains Approximation | Approximates the principal strain directions from the model deformation at arbitrary points. | |
Reaction Forces | Returns reaction forces and moments at supports. | |
Utilization of Elements | Multi-component that returns the utilization of elements. “1” means 100%: | |
| The utilization of beams is calculated according to EC3 (see section A.4). | |
| Returns the maximum Van Mises stress in each face of the shell. | |
Beam View | Lets you inspect beam properties: section forces, cross sections, displacement, utilization and stresses. Is to be plugged into the definition after the “ModelView”-component. | |
Beam Displacements | Returns displacements along elements: translations in global x-, y-, and z-direction; rotations about the global x-, y- and z-axis. | |
Beam Forces | Retrieves section forces along beams and trusses. | |
Shell View | Lets you inspect shell properties: displacement, utilization, principal stresses and Van Mises stress. Is to be plugged into the definition after the “ModelView”-component. | |
Line Results on Shells | Multi-component for generating line results on shells: | |
| Computes flow lines for forces in given direction at user defined positions. | |
| Creates lines that connect points of same value for selected shell results (e.g. principal stresses, displacement, utilization, cross section thickness) at user defined positions. Also returns values and can thus be used for probing the shell state. | |
| Returns the principal moment lines that originate from user defined points on shells. | |
| Outputs the principal stress directions in the center of each shell element. | |
Results Vectors on Shells | Multi-component for generating vector results in each element of a shell: | |
| Outputs the values of first and second principal stress on a given layer in the center of each shell element. | |
| Outputs the first and second principal normal forces and moments in the center of each shell face as vectors. | |
Shell forces | Outputs the values of the local or principal normal forces and moments in the center of each shell element. |
Export / Import
Export Model to SAV | Exports a model to a Structural Analysis Format (SAF)-file. | |
Export Model to DStV | Exports a model to RStab5, RStab6, RStab7, RStab8 or Robot by creating a DStV-file. | |
Export Model to JSON / BSON | Exports to model to a JSON or BSON file. | |
Import Model from JSON / BSON | Imports a model from a JSON or BSON file. | |
Export Model to CSV | Exports a model to Comma-Separated Value (CSV)-file |
Utilities
Closest Points | Connects each node of one set to a given number of nearest neighbor nodes or neighbors within a specified distance of another set. | |
Closest Points Multi-dimensional | Performs a multidimensional nearest neighbor search on two sets of vectors. | |
Cull Curves | Inputs a data tree of straight lines and thins them out so that no lines in different branches are closer than a given limit distance. | |
Detect Collisions | Counts the number of intersections between the model and a given mesh. | |
Get Cells from Lines | Creates closed cells from a graph and vertices on a user supplied plane. | |
Line-Line Intersection | Intersects given lines and returns resulting end-points and pieces. | |
Local Vector | Transforms a vector from the global to a local coordinate system given by a plane. | |
Line-Mesh Intersection | Returns the points where given lines intersect given meshes. | |
Mesh Breps | Takes multiple breps and generates a unified mesh from them. The algorithm takes account of common edges and insertion points. This lets one define positions for supports or point-loads on shells. | |
Principal States Transformation | Transforms given principal vectors of stresses, moments or in-plane forces to an arbitrary direction. | |
Remove Duplicate Lines | Eliminates identical lines. | |
Remove Duplicate Points | Eliminates identical points. | |
Simplify Model | Changes a model by straightening the connecting elements between nodes that connect to more than two neighbor nodes. | |
Element Felting | Felts elements of a model by connecting them at their mutual closest points. | |
Mapper | Applies mappings (like Simple Stitch) to a model. | |
Interpolate Shapes | Interpolates between a base geometry (0.0) and given shape(s) (1.0). | |
Stitch | Multi-component for defining modes of connection between sets of beams: | |
| Connects beam sets by a preset number of elements. | |
| Connects beam sets by a preset number of elements that do not intersect each other. | |
| Connects beam sets by a preset number of elements whose maximum inclination can be controlled via min/max offset-limits from their starting point. | |
Surface to Truss | Fills surfaces with different types of trusses. | |
User Iso-Lines | Creates iso-lines on a model based on user supplied nodal values. | |
User Stream-Lines | Creates stream-lines on a model based on user supplied vectors at the nodes. |
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