Is there a tool in Patran that allows us to automatically check for overlapping temperature loads, i.e. coincidental (overlaying) temperature loads on nodes?
Is there a tool in Patran that allows us to automatically check for overlapping temperature loads, i.e. coincidental (overlaying) temperature loads on nodes?
Though there isn't currently a tool that directly does this for you, here are three workarounds:
1. Copy each Application Region of each Temperature Load Set and paste it into the Tools/List/Create, FEM/Node/Attribute. You would put a list of nodes for one temp load's application region in `lista` and then the second in `listb`. Then you could do a Tools/List/Boolean, choosing the Intersection AB to find the ones they have in common. Those would be the nodes that have the temperature overlap (assuming they are the same node IDs, and not just concident). Note: If you have more than two load sets and application regions, this can be very time consuming.
2. There's also a Load Cases, where it allows you to "add" or "average" or assign a priority "value" to your load cases. What you probably want to try is "value". Select the cell under the load set you want to have a higher priority and click "value". This will give that load set a value of "1" which will supersede one with a value of "2", etc.
3. Also, when you apply a temperature load on a node in PATRAN and then apply another temperature load on that same node in PATRAN, by the default value of "add" of the Load Case mentioned in part #2, it immediately should add the two values and plot that value in the Plot Markers and the the Plot Contours...that could be another way to check: just look for the hotspots.
Though there isn't currently a tool that directly does this for you, here are three workarounds:
1. Copy each Application Region of each Temperature Load Set and paste it into the Tools/List/Create, FEM/Node/Attribute. You would put a list of nodes for one temp load's application region in `lista` and then the second in `listb`. Then you could do a Tools/List/Boolean, choosing the Intersection AB to find the ones they have in common. Those would be the nodes that have the temperature overlap (assuming they are the same node IDs, and not just concident). Note: If you have more than two load sets and application regions, this can be very time consuming.
2. There's also a Load Cases, where it allows you to "add" or "average" or assign a priority "value" to your load cases. What you probably want to try is "value". Select the cell under the load set you want to have a higher priority and click "value". This will give that load set a value of "1" which will supersede one with a value of "2", etc.
3. Also, when you apply a temperature load on a node in PATRAN and then apply another temperature load on that same node in PATRAN, by the default value of "add" of the Load Case mentioned in part #2, it immediately should add the two values and plot that value in the Plot Markers and the the Plot Contours...that could be another way to check: just look for the hotspots.
