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APIaddThermalDistLoad Method

Add thermal loads for strain-only loading in beams and shells
REST path: /load/element/tempdistadd/[elem]/[loadcase]
REST verb: POST
REST body: values

Namespace: NextFEMapi
Assembly: NextFEMapi (in NextFEMapi.dll) Version: 2.6.0.0 (2.6.0.0)
Syntax
public bool addThermalDistLoad(
	string elem,
	double[] values,
	string loadcase
)

Parameters

elem  String
ID of the element
values  Double
Array of double of length 3: 0 = uniform temperature, 1 = gradient in local z, 2 = gradient in local y
loadcase  String
Name of the loadcase

Return Value

Boolean
True if successful
Remarks
Thermal distorsion is always applied locally (as per local axes)
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