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STAAD Commands and Input Instructions
Section 5
5-104
5.21.1 Element Property Specification
Purpose
This set of commands may be used to specify properties of plate
finite elements.
General Format:
ELEMENT PROPERTY
element-list
THICKNESS f
1
(f
2
, f
3
, f
4
)
f
1
= Thickness of the element.
f
2
...f
4
= Thicknesses at other nodes of the element, if
different from f
1
.
Description
Elements of uniform or linearly varying thickness may be modeled
using this command. The value of the thickness must be provided
in current units.
See
Section 1.6
Example
UNIT . . .
ELEMENT PROPERTY
1 TO 8 14 16 TH 0.25