4.2.9.1. Standard Brick Element¶
This element is used to construct an eight-node brick element object, which uses a trilinear isoparametric formulation.
- element('stdBrick', eleTag, *eleNodes, matTag, <b1, b2, b3>)
eleTag
(int)unique element object tag
a list of eight element nodes in bottom and top faces and in counter-clockwise order
matTag
(int)tag of nDMaterial
b1
b2
b3
(float)body forces in global x,y,z directions
Note
The valid queries to a Brick element when creating an ElementRecorder object are ‘forces’, ‘stresses,’ (‘strains’ version > 2.2.0) and ‘material $matNum matArg1 matArg2 …’ Where $matNum refers to the material object at the integration point corresponding to the node numbers in the isoparametric domain.
This element can only be defined in -ndm 3 -ndf 3
See also