Adding mass to the Part/Assembly query

Feature Requests
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Hi, would be great to have computed also the mass of a part based in the density and thikness for shell components!

Regards

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Here’s how the mass query works in Abaqus:

  • it takes into account shell, solid, truss, and point/nonstructural mass elements
  • missing thickness, density, or section assignment is excluded from mass calculations
  • variable thickness assignments are not taken into account
  • shell offset values are not considered when calculating the center of volume or surface area
  • the mass query evaluates mass distributed in a continuum throughout the model, while the solver calculates the mass properties according to the discretization of the model

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Since the integration is already built in, adding mass computation to solids is easy. I will see how to implement it for shells when an offset is involved. The computation will be based on finite element discretization.

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