Static condensation in Member3D.py about pynite HOT 1 CLOSED

Static condensation is used to account for member end releases. We start with the typical member stiffness matrix and fixed end reaction vector, and then we condense out any "released" degrees of freedom the user has specified.

You don't need to be concerned with any of these matrices unless you want to verify them for yourself. I've built simple wrappers around the object model to keep the user's interaction with matrices to a minimum. For example, the "FEModel3D.DefineReleases()" method will tell PyNite to take care of condensing the matrices so you don't have to deal with it.

fer() is the member's local fixed end reaction vector. I've adopted the notation of using capital letters for global matrices, and lower case letters for local matrices. If no end releases have been defined, fer() and __fer_Unc() return the same vector.

from pynite.