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Create a Design Response that measures the maximum displacement of some boundary region for a set of boundary conditions. The response is derived from the solution of a linear static structural finite element analysis. The best performance is achieved if: 1) the selected region is local and contains few nodes, and 2) the selected region is loaded or assigned to be passive.

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Inputs

NameTypeDescription
BoundaryBoundaryBoundary that the design response will be computed on.
Load caseBoundary Condition ListLoad case for the design response.
DirectionDirection Component EnumOperation that will be applied to all nodal displacement components of the Boundary input before being aggregated with the max operator. |X| will compute the magnitude of the displacement vector projected onto the X-axis, |XY| will compute the magnitude of the displacement vector projected onto the plane spanned by the X-axis and Y-axis, and |XYZ| will compute the magnitude of the non-projected displacement vector.
FrameFrameReference frame that the displacement vector will be computed in. If a Frame is not specified, the global coordinate system will be used.

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Outputs

Type
Design Response