I already have obtained the KAAX and MAAX matrices using PARAM,EXTOUT,DMIGPCH inside begins bulk section (but apparently the order of the KAAX and MAAX matrix are different each other, always the MAAX matrix order is lower than KAAX). I would like to know if with these matrices I can obtain the eigenvalues and eigenvector from a not constrained model.
Yes, you can do this... assuming there were no constraints in the 'creation' run, then as long as you do not add constraints in the 'assembly' run, then it will be free-free. Here is a sample input file. Please let me know if there are other questions...
By another hand. I have to extract the global stiffness and mass matrices from different models (I am using PARAM,EXTOUT,DMIGPCH again). I'm planning to use these matrices to do various mathematical operations on them in Matlab. For that, I did a simple beam example with 4 nodes. When I extracted the MAAX and KAAX matrices in .pch file I could notice that the MAAX matrix has a lower order than KAAX matrix furthermore and the stiffness matrix is always singular.
I would like to know:
If those steps that I did are correct to obtain the global stiffness and mass matrices (I mean, using PARAM,EXTOUT,DMIGPCH).
Why the mass and stiffness matrices have a different order in the .pch file? (in my example, Kaax is a sym matrix with order 24, and the Maax is a diag matrix with order 16)
