April 20, 2011
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RISA-3D,
Loads,
New,
Area Load
After
solving
a
model
with
Member
Area
Loads,
RISA-3D
will
automatically
create
Transient
Basic
Load
Cases
that
allow
the
user
to
verify
load
distribution.
For
information
on
how
to
view
this
distribution,
please
see
the
article
"Using
Transient
Loads
to
Verify
Applied
Area
Loads
in
RISA-3D".
If
this
load
attribution
is
not
what
you’d
expect,
you
can
adjust
the
Area
Load
Mesh
entry,
which
controls
the
fineness
of
this
distribution.
This
feature
is
located
on
the
Solution
tab
of
Model
Settings:
If
you
have
a
model
with
closely
spaced
members,
you
can
lower
this
value
to
achieve
a
finer
area
load
mesh
and
therefore
a
more
accurate
load
distribution…