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Status Future consideration
Created by Dallin STRONG
Created on Jan 1, 2022

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Add the ability to add wind loads to plate elements

It would be nice to be able to apply wind loads on plate elements. Especially given that there is a wind load definition specifically for tanks, but no way to model that tank other than plate elements. The alternatives are a cumbersome to implement, such as placing dummy beams around the plate elements or manually applying the wind load on each element. 

  • Admin
    Carlos Aguera
    Reply
    |     Aug 17, 2022

    This is in our development backlog.

  • Admin
    Carlos Aguera
    Reply
    |     Aug 17, 2022

    Wind loads on plates is comparatively simple in that it is basically assigning a pressure load on the plate. However I would agree that it would would be good to create a system that can convert the wind pressures that come from the various code requirements into a set of plate pressure loads.