Rigid Diaphragm

This command is used to construct a number of Multi-Point Constraint (MP_Constraint) objects. These objects will constraint certain degrees-of-freedom at the listed constrained nodes to move as if in a rigid plane with the retained node.

rigidDiaphragm $perpDirn $retainedNodeTag $constrainedNodeTag1 $constrainedNodeTag2 ...

Argument	Type	Description
$perpDirn	integer	direction perpendicular to the rigid plane (i.e. direction 3 corresponds to the 1-2 plane)
$retainedNodeTag	integer	integer tag identifying the master node
$constrainedNodeTag1 $constrainedNodeTag2 ...		integar tags identifying the slave nodes

Note

1. The constraint object is constructed assuming small rotations.

2. The rigidDiaphragm command works only for problems in three dimensions with six-degrees-of-freedom at the nodes (ndf = 6).

Example:

The following command will constrain nodes 4,5,6 to move as if in the same 1-2 plane as node 22. The constraint matrix added for each of the constrained nodes, which defines the motion of degrees-of-freedom (x, y, rZ) or (1, 2, and 6) at node 4,5,6 relative to those same degrees-of-freedom at the retained node 22 is as follows:

begin{bmatrix}

1 & 0 & -Delta Y \ 0 & 1 & Delta X \ 0 & 0 & 1

end{bmatrix}

where \(\Delta X\) is x (or 1) coordinate of constrained node minus the x coordinate of the retained node and \(\Delta Y\) is y (or 2) coordinate of constrained node minus the y coordinate of the retained node and \(\Delta Y\)

1. Tcl Code

rigidDiaphragm 3 22 4 5 6

2. Python Code

rigidDiaphragm(3,22,4,5,6)