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ANALYSIS ROUTINE FOR FRAMES WITH NO SWAY - MOMENT DIST. METHOD

Number of elements
Ne ≔ 5

Number of nodes:
Nn ≔ 6

Element nodes (Each element runs from node Ai to node Bi)

⎡1⎤ ⎡2⎤
⎢2⎥ ⎢3⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
A≔⎢3⎥ B≔⎢4⎥
⎢4⎥ ⎢5⎥
⎢⎣ 5 ⎥⎦ ⎢⎣ 6 ⎥⎦

Relative Element Stiffnesses

⎡1⎤
⎢1⎥
⎢ ⎥
K≔⎢1⎥
⎢1⎥
⎢⎣ 1 ⎥⎦

Fixed End Moments (one at each element end), uniform loads, and spans / lengths

w ⋅ 20 2
w≔1 M ≔ ―――
12
⎡w⎤ ⎡ 20 ⎤ ⎡ −M ⎤ ⎡M⎤
⎢w⎥ ⎢ 20 ⎥ ⎢ −M ⎥ ⎢M⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
w≔⎢ 0 ⎥ L ≔ ⎢ 20 ⎥ MA ≔ ⎢ 0 ⎥ MB ≔ ⎢ 0 ⎥
⎢0⎥ ⎢ 20 ⎥ ⎢ 0 ⎥ ⎢0⎥
⎢⎣ 0 ⎥⎦ ⎢⎣ 20 ⎥⎦ ⎢⎣ 0 ⎥⎦ ⎢⎣ 0 ⎥⎦

Sums of relative element stiffnesses at each node:

Create zeros vector Kt:
i ≔ 1 ‥ Nn Kt ≔ 0
i

Add stiffnesses at nodes: Kt ≔ ‖ for h ∊ 0 ‥ Ne − 1

‖ ‖
‖ ‖ KtA ← KtA + Kh
‖ ‖ h h

‖ ‖ Kt ← Kt + K
‖ ‖ Bh B
h
h
‖
‖ Kt
ROUTINE
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ROUTINE
Reapeat "many" times:
f ≔ ‖ for j ∊ 1 ‥ 100
‖ ‖
‖ ‖ for i ∊ 1 ‥ Nn Create zeros vector.
‖ ‖ ‖ Sum ← 0
‖ ‖ ‖‖ i
For each element, add
‖ ‖
‖ ‖ for h ∊ 0 ‥ Ne − 1 moment at end A to other
‖ ‖ ‖ Sum ← MA + Sum moments at same node A.
‖ ‖ ‖ A
h
h A
h Repeat for B.
‖
‖ ‖ Sum ← MB + Sum
‖ ‖ ‖ B h B
‖ ‖ ‖ Moment sum at A Sum_A, if not
h h

‖ ‖ for h ∊ 0 ‥ Ne − 1 zero, is "unbalanced" mom. to be

‖ ‖ ‖ MA ← MA − Sum ⋅ K ÷ Kt − 0.5 Sum ⋅ K ÷ Kt assigned to elements (connected
‖ ‖ ‖ h h A h A B h B
‖ ‖ ‖
h h h h
at A) in proportion to stiffness.
‖ ‖ ‖ MBh ← MBh − SumB ⋅ Kh ÷ KtB − 0.5 SumA ⋅ Kh ÷ KtA 50% of that mom. is "carried over"
‖ ‖ ‖ h h h h
to B.
‖ OUT ← MA
‖ 0 Repeat for B.
‖ Store and output results
‖ OUT1 ← MB (element end moments) as a
‖
‖ OUT "vector w. two vectors" OUT.

RESULTS:
Extract output vectors MA and MB

MA ≔ f MB ≔ f
0 1

⎡ 0⎤ ⎡ 46 ⎤
⎢ −46 ⎥ ⎢ 14 ⎥
⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
MA = ⎢ −14 ⎥ MB = ⎢ −4 ⎥ (positive = clockwise)
⎢ 4⎥ ⎢ 1⎥
⎢⎣ −1 ⎥⎦ ⎢⎣ 0 ⎥⎦

B di t di f l t 2
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Bending moment diagram for element ≔ 2

Nodes:
h ≔ element − 1 A =2 to B =3
h h

M ((x)) ≔ MA + ⎛−MB − MA ⎞ ⋅ x ÷ L + w ⋅ L ÷ 2 ⋅ x − w ⋅ x 2 ÷ 2
h ⎝ h h⎠ h h h h

21

14

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
-7

-14
M ((x))
-21

-28

-35

-42

-49

(for beams, positive = tension at bottom)