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[Maryam Tabbakhh]

Hi,

I have a question regarding the animation of the results. I have a block that is gravity initialize in the water and then is subjected to the earthquake loads. The deformation under gravity initialized is much bigger than under dynamic loads. So, when I apply the scale factor to see the movement of the block better, it jumps out of the screen. Do you have any recommendation for me to show it nicely? I mean apply SF for the movement of dynamic loads and we skip the scale factor for gravity initialization? Thanks 

[Ushnish Basu]

Currently, we plot modified coordinates as follows:

x=x0+dsf*(x-x0)

where x0 is the initial coordinates.

I have asked the LSPP team to make an enhancement, where we apply the scale factor to a user-specified state k, i.e.

x=xk+dsf*(x-xk)

Potentially, we can also set dsf=1 before state k, and to the user-specified value afterward.

I cannot say at present if and when this new feature might become available

 

[Maryam Tabbakhh]

Thank you very much for your response.