Surfaces Replication
During the meshing process, open objects may be replicated in the meshing process to approximate them as two thin parallel layers. It may be useful to analyze open structures by using the CFIE formulation, as the thin layer replication allows to consider its objects at approximate volumes.
The following options may be edited within this section:
- Replicate Open Surfaces Select this option to activate the replication and the to enable rest of parameters in the window. If replication is enabled, the elements of the open objects are replicated to an automatic frequency-dependent distance from the original ones.
- Replication Area This section defines the criterion to select
the open objects that would be replicated or not, according to its dimensions. To
force any open objects to not be replicated, use the Surfaces to not
duplicate option included in Advanced Options. The criterion may
be edited:
- Automatic replication Any object with a total area
greater than
- Replicate all open objects every open objects are replicated.
- Objects with area greater than To specify manually the threshold of the minimum total area of the open objects to be replicated, in square meters.
- Automatic replication Any object with a total area
greater than
- Replication Distance The distance between the original objects
and their parallel replicas can also be edited. Two different methods are
available:
- Automatically calculate By default, the distance (in
meters) is given by the following expression:
- Specified distance To specify manually the desired distance, in meters.
- Automatically calculate By default, the distance (in
meters) is given by the following expression: