Truss Element Library

Distributed loads are available for elements with displacement degrees of freedom. They are specified as described in Distributed Loads.

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): BX
2. Body force
3. FL⁻³

4. Body force in global X-direction.

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): BY
2. Body force
3. FL⁻³

4. Body force in global Y-direction.

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): BZ
2. Body force
3. FL⁻³

4. Body force in global Z-direction. (Only for 3D trusses.)

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): BXNU
2. Body force
3. FL⁻³

4. Nonuniform body force in global X-direction with magnitude supplied via user subroutine DLOAD in Abaqus/Standard  and VDLOAD in Abaqus/Explicit.

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): BYNU
2. Body force
3. FL⁻³

4. Nonuniform body force in global Y-direction with magnitude supplied via user subroutine DLOAD in Abaqus/Standard  and VDLOAD in Abaqus/Explicit.

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): BZNU
2. Body force
3. FL⁻³

4. Nonuniform body force in global Z-direction with magnitude supplied via user subroutine DLOAD in Abaqus/Standard  and VDLOAD in Abaqus/Explicit. (Only for 3D trusses.)

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): CENT^(S)
2. Not supported
3. FL⁻⁴ (ML⁻³T⁻²)

4. Centrifugal load (magnitude is input as $\rho {\omega }^2$, where $\rho$ is the mass density per unit volume, $\omega$ is the angular velocity).

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): CENTRIF^(S)
2. Rotational body force
3. T⁻²

4. Centrifugal load (magnitude is input as ${\omega }^2$, where $\omega$ is the angular velocity).

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): CORIO^(S)
2. Coriolis force
3. FL⁻⁴T (ML⁻³T⁻¹)

4. Coriolis force (magnitude is input as $\rho \omega$, where $\rho$ is the mass density per unit volume, $\omega$ is the angular velocity).

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): GRAV
2. Gravity
3. LT⁻²

4. Gravity loading in a specified direction (magnitude is input as acceleration).

1. Load ID (*DLOAD): ROTA^(S)
2. Rotational body force
3. T⁻²

4. Rotary acceleration load (magnitude is input as $\alpha$, where $\alpha$ is the rotary acceleration).