SensorSuperElement

A sensor attached to a SuperElement-object with mesh node number. As a difference to other ObjectSensors, the SuperElement sensor has a mesh node number at which the sensor is attached to. The sensor measures OutputVariableSuperElement and outputs values into a file, showing per line [time, sensorValue[0], sensorValue[1], …]. Use SensorUserFunction to modify sensor results (e.g., transforming to other coordinates) and writing to file.

The item SensorSuperElement with type = ‘SuperElement’ has the following parameters:

• name [type = String, default = ‘’]:

  sensor’s unique name
• bodyNumber [type = ObjectIndex, default = invalid (-1)]:

  body (=object) number to which sensor is attached to
• meshNodeNumber [type = UInt, default = invalid (-1)]:

  mesh node number, which is a local node number with in the object (starting with 0); the node number may represent a real Node in mbs, or may be virtual and reconstructed from the object coordinates such as in ObjectFFRFreducedOrder
• writeToFile [type = Bool, default = True]:

  True: write sensor output to file; flag is ignored (interpreted as False), if fileName=’’
• fileName [type = String, default = ‘’]:

  directory and file name for sensor file output; default: empty string generates sensor + sensorNumber + outputVariableType; directory will be created if it does not exist
• outputVariableType [type = OutputVariableType, default = OutputVariableType::_None]:

  OutputVariableType for sensor, based on the output variables available for the mesh nodes (see special section for super element output variables, e.g, in ObjectFFRFreducedOrder, Section Super element output variables)
• storeInternal [type = Bool, default = False]:

  true: store sensor data in memory (faster, but may consume large amounts of memory); false: internal storage not available
• visualization [type = VSensorSuperElement]:

  parameters for visualization of item

The item VSensorSuperElement has the following parameters:

• show [type = Bool, default = True]:

  set true, if item is shown in visualization and false if it is not shown

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DESCRIPTION of SensorSuperElement

Relevant Examples and TestModels with weblink:

CMSexampleCourse.py (Examples/), NGsolveCraigBampton.py (Examples/), NGsolvePostProcessingStresses.py (Examples/), ObjectFFRFconvergenceTestBeam.py (Examples/), objectFFRFreducedOrderNetgen.py (Examples/), pendulumVerify.py (Examples/), abaqusImportTest.py (TestModels/), objectFFRFreducedOrderAccelerations.py (TestModels/), objectFFRFreducedOrderStressModesTest.py (TestModels/), objectFFRFreducedOrderTest.py (TestModels/), objectFFRFTest.py (TestModels/), objectFFRFTest2.py (TestModels/), objectGenericODE2Test.py (TestModels/), perfObjectFFRFreducedOrder.py (TestModels/), superElementRigidJointTest.py (TestModels/)

The web version may not be complete. For details, consider also the Exudyn PDF documentation : theDoc.pdf