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*SENSITIVITY

Keyword type: step

This procedure is used to perform a sensitivity analysis. There are two optional parameters: READ and WRITE.

The parameters READ and WRITE are mutually exclusive and can only be used if the coordinates are the design variables. If WRITE is selected, the “raw” sensitivities (i.e. without filtering or any other action defined underneath the *FILTER card) for all design nodes are stored in file jobname.sen in ascending order of the design node numbers. If READ is selected the raw sensitivities are read from file jobname.sen. They can be further processed by filtering etc.

Notice that the objective functions STRAIN ENERGY, MASS, ALL-DISP, MISESSTRESS, PS1STRESS, PS3STRESS and EQUIVALENT PLASTIC STRAIN require a previous *STATIC step, the objective GREEN requires a previous *GREEN step and the objective EIGENFREQUENCY requires a previous *FREQUENCY step, possibly preceded by a *STATIC step, cf. *OBJECTIVE.


First line: 

Example:

*SENSITIVITY

defines a linear sensitivity step.


Example files: beampic, beampis.