User Guide#

The sectionproperties user guide provides an overview of each step in the sectionproperties workflow, details the theoretical background for the analysis and includes a section on validation.

Contents

Features#

Pre-Processor#

  • ☑ Python API

  • ☑ Geometry manipulation by Shapely

  • ☑ Common section geometry functions

  • ☑ Custom section geometry input

  • ☑ Rhino .3dm import

  • ☑ .dxf import

  • ☑ Perimeter offset tool

  • ☑ Quadratic triangular mesh generation

  • ☑ Composite material definition

Cross-Section Analysis#

  • ☑ Global axis geometric section properties

    • ☑ Area

    • ☑ Perimeter

    • ☑ Mass

    • ☑ First moments of area

    • ☑ Second moments of area

    • ☑ Elastic centroid

  • ☑ Centroidal axis geometric section properties

    • ☑ Second moments of area

    • ☑ Elastic section moduli

    • ☐ Yield moment

    • ☑ Radii of gyration

    • ☑ Plastic centroid

    • ☑ Plastic section moduli

    • ☑ Shape factors

  • ☑ Principal axis geometric section properties

    • ☑ Second moments of area

    • ☑ Elastic section moduli

    • ☐ Yield moment

    • ☑ Radii of gyration

    • ☑ Plastic centroid

    • ☑ Plastic section moduli

    • ☑ Shape factors

  • ☑ Warping section properties

    • ☑ Torsion constant

    • ☑ Warping constant

    • ☑ Monosymmetry constants

  • ☑ Shear section properties

    • ☑ Shear centre (elastic method)

    • ☑ Shear centre (Trefftz’s method)

    • ☑ Shear areas (global axis)

    • ☑ Shear areas (principal axis)

  • ☑ Cross-section stress analysis

  • ☑ Mohr’s circles for stresses at a point

Solver#

  • ☑ Direct solver

  • ☑ CGS iterative solver

  • ☑ Sparse matrices

Post-Processor#

  • ☑ Plot geometry

  • ☑ Plot mesh

  • ☑ Plot centroids

  • ☑ Plot cross-section stresses

  • ☑ Retrieve cross-section stresses

  • ☐ Generate cross-section report