Hello,
I am currently working on a curtain wall model in Karamba3D, I would like to apply wind loads as surface loads (kN/m²) on non-structural panels that represent the glass panes. I’ve seen that karamba allows to apply loads on nodes or in beams but that’s not what i’m looking for; I am looking for surface elements that could receive surface loads and then transform these surfaces loads in linear loads for the beams in the perimeter.
Could you please let me know if that is possible?
Thank you very much for your help
Hi Imene,
you can apply surface loads also onto surfaces and beams using the MeshLoad component - 3.2.1: General Loads | Karamba3D v3.
Make sure to generate the loads as “points” and “lines” and make sure that you do not use the same mesh for the load as you do for the element, otherwise all the load will be applied directly to the mesh.
Take care as this example does not reflect the connectivity of the shell and the beam itself.
meshload on mesh and beam.gh (31.4 KB)
Thank you so much for you advice it worked !
while analyzing my structural model i noticed i have different force values and that the interior columns do not seem to take twice the load of the exterior columns, which i was expecting based on their position and tributary area.
Hi, you need to check the resolution of the mesh. Generally if your mesh has more faces and the size of faces is smaller than your spacing of columns, then the load distribution would be accurate.