Create derived load cases in the form of linear
super-position and/or envelope.
Open the Derived Load cases tool in one of the following ways:
From the Post ribbon, click the satellite icon that appears when you hover over the
Results tool.
Right-click on a result or load case entity in the Results Browser and select Create Derived
Loadcase.
Load cases are available to select and move to the right-side of the tool to combine
them based on the following:
Figure 1. Linear Superposition
Figure 2. Envelope
Envelope can be either min, max, or extreme and it requires, where available, the
definition of the relevant metric, for quantities such as vector and tensor.
Figure 3.
Each newly created derived load case (DLC) is appended to the list and can be
reviewed by clicking the review icon. DLCs are then available in all of the other
result tools.
For envelopes, the complete data type is stored based on the data component metric.
In other words, a DLC created as an envelope among load cases based on Stress: von
Mises, max will store the complete tensor state which for each entity leads to the
max von Mises value. In this case, only the required data type is stored, and no
other data types are available.
that appears when you hover over the
Results tool.
