Wall foundation analysis properties

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The analytical wall foundation is represented with a single line.

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The image on the left shows the analytical model with the wall removed for clarity.

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Also note that the image on the right still has an

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analytical wall foundation but it is obscured by the analytical wall.

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When linking RT

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to robot, a wharf foundation becomes a robot linear support.

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The support is named R

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BC LIN fixed and by default is fixed in all six degrees of freedom.

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Again note that the rev and robot model is also display in the wall.

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The linear support is shown with the purple color

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in the 3D view here.

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You can see that we currently have our visual style set to wireframe.

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And we're also showing the analytical model.

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You'll notice that we have the analytical model

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of the wall shown with the blue plane.

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We also have the wall foundation shown with this line across here

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and we have a load applied to the wall. This is acting as a retaining wall.

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Let's inspect the analytical model closer

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in the project browser. Go ahead and open up the analytical model.

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Notice in this display here,

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we can clearly see the load and we can clearly see the wall,

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but we can't see the wall foundation

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to see this clearer. We remove the visibility of the load and the wall

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to do this. We'll use visibility graphic overrides.

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Go ahead and select the view ribbon

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and on the view ribbon, select visibility graphics

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in the visibility graphic override dialog box,

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go ahead and select the analytical model categories.

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And here we'll remove the visibility of the analytical walls

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and we'd also remove the visibility of the structural loads.

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Go ahead and select, OK.

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And you can now clearly see our analytical wall foundation.

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The analytical wall foundation is a very simple element.

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If we select the element here,

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you can see that most of the properties are read only and we simply

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have foundation number and comments that we

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could add into the instance properties.

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Note on the context ribbon, we can highlight the physical elements,

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we could disable the analytical model if we

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were using another method to support the wall.

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And we can also adjust the analytical model if required.

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OK. Let's switch back to the main 3d view.

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We'll now transfer this to robot structural analysis professional

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to do this. Go ahead and select the analyze ribbon

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and on the analyze ribbon under structural analysis,

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select robot structural analysis,

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then go ahead and select robot structure analysis link

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in the integration with robot structure analysis.

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Dialogue box ensure that we are sending the

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model and we are using direct integration,

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go ahead and select. OK.

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And you can now see that rev it

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is transferring the model to robot structural analysis.

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This will just take a few seconds

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as part of the transfer. We can see the information dialogue here.

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We'll say no to look at the events report

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and this will now take us directly into robots.

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So in robot,

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we can now see our wall panel and we can also see our

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foundation notice the foundation is shown at the base of the wall.

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We'll now perform a calculation on the standard toolbar.

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Go ahead and select calculations.

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You can now see the calculations have run and we now have a mesh showing on our wall.

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Let's now review the results on the standard toolbar. Go ahead and select layouts,

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then select results

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and select result maps

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in the maps dialog box. Let's take a look at the bending moment.

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We'll select the principal tab

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and here we'll select the bending moment for M two,

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but also ensure that we have descriptions.

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So we'll select with descriptions and then select apply.

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The bending moment is currently for dead load one.

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So we'll change this to dead load two, which is representing our soil load.

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Let's go ahead and select dead load two from the cases. Pull down menu.

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So we'll select dead load two

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and we can now clearly see the bending moment for M two.

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We could also now remove the bended moment and then under global displacements,

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we'll go ahead and select the X axis and once again, click apply.

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And of course,

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we can now see that we have a bigger deflection at the

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top of the wall and a smaller deflection at the bottom.

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So in summary,

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the Wharf Foundation gives us a useful support when working with robots.