Modelling Masonry Walls
OWAIS UL HASSAN
I am working on a masonry modelling project in which I need to model several walls. Each wall consists of multiple brick courses (around 10 or more layers along the height), and I would like to model the wall brick-by-brick rather than as a homogenized masonry panel. My main requirement is that every individual brick should be assigned as a separate PART.
The challenge is that I have multiple walls with the same bonding arrangement, and manually creating and assigning separate PARTs for hundreds of bricks is becoming very time-consuming. I would appreciate suggestions on the most efficient way to generate repeated brick courses along the wall height.
Thank you in advance!
l...@schwer.net
One option would be to use the keywords *INCLUDE_TRANSFORM and on Card 4 indicate a *DEFINE_TRANSFORMATION.
In the illustration you provided, you would have two generic block meshes, one for the long block and one for the short block. Then for example you would need 5 instances of *INCLUDE_TRANSFORM to form the top row and 10 instances to form the bottom row.
You could put these 15 instances of *INCLUDE_TRANSFORM in a separate keyword file, e.g. “Two-Layer.k” and then use *INCLUDE_TRANSFORM to create this two layer construction in other locations, i.e. nested instances of *INCLUDE_TRANSFORM.
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