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1-Visitor
November 25, 2022
Question

Assigning a variable to symbolically solved matrix

  • November 25, 2022
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Hello everyone, I'm having some big problems trying to solve a finite element method problem for my class. I am trying to determine a stiffness matrix for a problem I was assigned and this requires me to double integrate an 8x3 matrix, a 3x3 matrix, and a 3x8 matrix. I get mathcad to perform the matrix multiplication to give me an 8x8 matrix, even though it says the symbolic value is too large to display. However the issue is, I cannot assign a variable to the result that I am got, I do not understand how to get this to work, when I know mathCAD should be able to do the computation. Below attached is the exact solution to what I am talking about. Please help! 

 

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2 replies

24-Ruby III
November 25, 2022

Please upload your Mathcad Prime worksheet here.

1-Visitor
November 25, 2022

Should be uploaded to the original post now!

19-Tanzanite
November 25, 2022

You need to make your variables like J and BEB functions of xi and eta, and there is no need to evaluate them symbolically.  However, your integrals don't seem to converge.

 

Alan

ttokoro
21-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
November 26, 2022

Use simplify and I got by Prime 8...

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t.t.
1-Visitor
November 27, 2022

Thanks so much for your reply, this helped so much!