I’ve been trying to model a circular reservoir in Grasshopper and analyse it using karamba3D.
I declared the reservoir walls as shells, but after that I encountered issues while trying to apply horizontal loads on the shell. The water self-weight creates a triangular distributed load on the walls. Like in this picture:
But I couldn’t find a way to apply that form of load on a shell using karamba3D.
To “run away” from this problem, I divided the original mesh into smaller meshes and applied fixed distributed loads in each layer using the MeshLoad Const on the Loads component, the bigger load on the mesh near the bottom and the smaller load on the mesh near the maximum water level.
Hi, in your diagram it seems that you want to apply a global projected load. So you should model the rectangular surfaces and simply input the direction for the projection
Is it possible? Or do I really have to subdivide the wall into smaller horizontal rectangles and apply constant rectangular loads with decreasing values into each mesh/shell?
Dividing like that creates a loss in precision, I wanted it to be precise as possible
