User Guide

RISA-3D User’s Guide
Version 5.0
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Click Apply and we are ready to select the members.
At this point we could simply click on the four BEAM-Z members to apply the
load. However, for demonstration purposes, we will make a selection that
designates the correct members.
Click the Unselect All button and then click the Criteria Selection
button. Click the Members tab and choose BEAM-Z from the Section Set list.
Click OK and the members are selected in the view. Now click on these eight
members to load them with the distributed cladding load.
When you are finished your screen looks like this:
Right click to stop drawing distributed loads.
Now lets look at the loads in the spreadsheets.
Basic Load Case Spreadsheet
Open the Basic Load Cases spreadsheet by selecting it on the Spreadsheet
menu.
This is where we named our basic cases earlier. Notice that there are now some
numbers on the right side of the spreadsheet. These numbers summarize the loads
that we just defined. The first two lines have a “1” which represents the “1” area
load that we placed in each case. The “32” indicates we have 32 plates loaded
with surface loads and the “8” represents the 8 cladding loads we just applied.
RISA-3D provides special interaction between these cells and the spreadsheets
that hold the actual loads such that clicking the mouse on the cells will open the
appropriate spreadsheet. This is why the numbers are gray, which means that
these fields may not be edited.
Click in the 5
th
row on the cell that contains the number “8”.