Specified Displacements Table

Enter or modify Specified Displacements of Supports at specific nodes, in a spreadsheet format table.

Table Tool in MIDAS/Gen is powerful and contains a large variety of built-in functions. Refer to the following items for detail directions:
 

Usage of Table Tool

Terminology

Familiarize with Usage

Basic directions (Cell motion, selection, size control, etc.)

Data manipulation (Add, delete, modify data, etc.)

Copy/Paste data using clipboard

Supplementary Table functions

Table Sorting

Table format setting

Auto-fit column width

Graph printing

Supplementary functions by Table types

Node/Element Table

Results Table

From the Main Menu select Load > Load Tables > Specified Displacements.

Select Structure Tables > Static Loads > Specified Displacements in the Tables tab of the Tree Menu.

Refer to Usage of Table Tool and enter or modify the following data:

 

Node: Node numbers

Load Case : Unit load cases

Flag : Select the degree-of-freedom components to be constrained by specified displacements with respect to the nodal (global) coordinate system (GCS)

Dx: Specified displacement in the nodal (GCS) x-direction

Dy: Specified displacement in the nodal (GCS) y-direction

Dz: Specified displacement in the nodal (GCS) z-direction

Rx: Specified rotational displacement about the nodal (GCS) x-axis

Ry: Specified rotational displacement about the nodal (GCS) y-axis

Rz: Specified rotational displacement about the nodal (GCS) z-axis

Group: Name of Load Group