Hi everyone,
I am trying to get the Principal Stress (PS) values from a shell model using Karamba API.
In a previous Grasshopper prototype I used the ShellVecResults component, and the closest equivalent function I found in the API was PrincipalStressDirs, which I’m using like this to get PS values for the bottom layer:
PrincipalStressDirs.solve(k3dModel, 0, -1, new feb.VectReal(), out _, out _, out _, out List<double> bottomPS1s, out List<double> bottomPS2s);
However, all the resulting PS values are 0. I guess that I’m using some input wrong, and I’d say the culprit is the 4th argument, “superimp_factors (Type: VectReal): vector of doubles for superimposing the loadcases” according to the documentation: PrincipalStressDirs.solve Method, which I’m setting to new feb.VectReal()
, even though I couldn’t really understand what is it doing. But since I only have one loadcase, I wonder if it actually matters.
Either the problem is that or the second argument, "layer_ind: index of layer of shell where force flow lines shall be computed) that I’m setting to 0.
Alternatively, is there a better way of getting PS values?
Thanks in advance, Eduardo