Re: [Libmesh-devel] Adding Exodus SHELL elements

2016-05-19 Thread Paul T. Bauman
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 3:00 PM, David Knezevic wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Paul T. Bauman > wrote: > >> This all sounds fine, but I admit I'm curious about where you need this >> as opposed to just using the element normal (not elem.normal()) to use in >> applying the loads. I don

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Adding Exodus SHELL elements

2016-05-19 Thread David Knezevic
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Paul T. Bauman wrote: > This all sounds fine, but I admit I'm curious about where you need this as > opposed to just using the element normal (not elem.normal()) to use in > applying the loads. I don't doubt that you do, but I haven't run into a > case yet where I

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Adding Exodus SHELL elements

2016-05-19 Thread David Knezevic
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:04 PM, John Peterson wrote: > > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:55 AM, David Knezevic < > david.kneze...@akselos.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:43 PM, John Peterson >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:19 AM, David Knezevic < >>> david.kneze...@

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Adding Exodus SHELL elements

2016-05-19 Thread Paul T. Bauman
This all sounds fine, but I admit I'm curious about where you need this as opposed to just using the element normal (not elem.normal()) to use in applying the loads. I don't doubt that you do, but I haven't run into a case yet where I needed this, although I've only been playing with membranes and

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Adding Exodus SHELL elements

2016-05-19 Thread John Peterson
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:55 AM, David Knezevic wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:43 PM, John Peterson > wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:19 AM, David Knezevic < >> david.kneze...@akselos.com> wrote: >> >>> I would like to add support for Exodus's SHELL elements to libMesh, e.g. >

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Adding Exodus SHELL elements

2016-05-19 Thread David Knezevic
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:43 PM, John Peterson wrote: > > > On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:19 AM, David Knezevic < > david.kneze...@akselos.com> wrote: > >> I would like to add support for Exodus's SHELL elements to libMesh, e.g. >> TRISHELL3 and SHELL4. See the attached figure from the Exodus stand

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Adding Exodus SHELL elements

2016-05-19 Thread John Peterson
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:19 AM, David Knezevic wrote: > I would like to add support for Exodus's SHELL elements to libMesh, e.g. > TRISHELL3 and SHELL4. See the attached figure from the Exodus standard for > a picture of a SHELL4 element. > > As you can see from the figure, the only difference