LagrangeConstraints library

LagrangeConstraints library

Library used to create the matrices associated to boundary conditions through the method of Lagrange Multipliers. The source code includes four different sections.

  • Basic structures: basic functions and variables needed to organise the library with different Lagrange Constraints to enhance the interaction with this library.

  • Auxiliar functions: basic queries that are performed repeatedly.

  • Equations: functions that generate the equations associated to the constraint of basic degrees of freedom.

  • Lagrange Constraints: different available Lagrange Constraints. They tipically use the basic functions in “Equations” to assembly the required set of equations.

Attributes:

dict_of_lc (dict): Dictionary including the available Lagrange Contraint identifier (_lc_id) and the associated BaseLagrangeConstraint class

Notes:

To use this library: import sharpy.structure.utils.lagrangeconstraints as lagrangeconstraints

Args:

lc_list (list): list of all the defined contraints MBdict (dict): dictionary with the MultiBody and LagrangeMultipliers information MB_beam (list): list of Beam of each of the bodies that form the system MB_tstep (list): list of StructTimeStepInfo of each of the bodies that form the system num_LM_eq (int): number of new equations needed to define the boundary boundary conditions sys_size (int): total number of degrees of freedom of the multibody system dt (float): time step Lambda (np.ndarray): list of Lagrange multipliers values Lambda_dot (np.ndarray): list of the first derivative of the Lagrange multipliers values dynamic_or_static (str): string defining if the computation is dynamic or static LM_C (np.ndarray): Damping matrix associated to the Lagrange Multipliers equations LM_K (np.ndarray): Stiffness matrix associated to the Lagrange Multipliers equations LM_Q (np.ndarray): Vector of independent terms associated to the Lagrange Multipliers equations