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prescribed deformation

Module: solid

Category: bc

Type string: "prescribed deformation"

Parameters

Name Description Default Units
relative relative false []
scale scale 1 []
F F []

Description

The prescribed deformation boundary condition can be used to prescribe the displacement of a node using the following equation.

\[ \boldsymbol{u}=s\left(\boldsymbol{F}-\boldsymbol{I}\right)\boldsymbol{X} \]

Here, \(\boldsymbol{u}\) is the displacement vector, \(\boldsymbol{X}\) the reference position vector, \(\boldsymbol{F}\) a "deformation gradient", \(\boldsymbol{I}\) the identity tensor, and \(s\) a scale factor.

Example:

<bc type="prescribed deformation" node_set="set1">
  <scale lc="1">0.1</scale>
  <F>2,0,0, 0,2,0, 0,0.25,0</F>
<bc>