Modified Enneper surface stress lines - Karamba

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Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on April 26, 2018 at 12:43am

The output looks OK. Why do you have doubts?

Permalink Reply by Ishan on April 26, 2018 at 1:23am

The thing is when i bake the stress lines..they are baked into really small fragments..and if i use joi. Command in grasshopper they join in a really odd way...so how can i get continuous lines?

Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on April 26, 2018 at 12:25pm

You could use the end-points of the segments to build a poly-line (see attached definition).

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Permalink Reply by Ishan on April 30, 2018 at 10:36am

hey,

so i am planning to use carbon fibres to make a small pavilion using the data i obtained from karamba and doing a post processing clean up in rhino. I wanted to know which would be the best output to use to make a strong surface out of carbon fibres and resin.

should i use forceflow or principal moment or principal stress lines?

thank you

Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on May 1, 2018 at 1:33pm

Hi Ishan,

with both options you can get good results.

The principal moment lines are easier to handle since you do not have to specify a gerneral direction like for computing force flow patterns. Another advantage of the principal moment lines is, that they give orthogonal sets of curves.

Best,

Clemens