| inTENS
features modules for |
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Form
Finding, with specified stress control of shape |
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Load
Analysis |
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Membrane
Patterning |
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Geometric
Post-processing |
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| The
program element library include |
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Cable
elements |
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Slip
Cables, modelling a sequence of cable elements in
a friction-free pocket |
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Membrane
elements |
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Beam
elements |
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| Boundary
conditions and analysis constraints include |
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On-off
contact constraints, including vector trajectories
and spherical surfaces |
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Imposition
of geodesic seam trajectories |
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Closed
gas/liquid cells, with the option of constant pressure,
volume or mass |
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| Applied
loading options include |
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Wind
snow fluid and gas loading updated according to
surface deformation |
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Discrete
applied loads and specified node displacements and
element forces |
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| Further
details may be downloaded
from this site. |