https://www.sesamx.io/doc/ 2026-06-20T02:29:31+00:00 https://www.sesamx.io/doc/ https://www.sesamx.io/doc/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2023-01-28T10:37:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/add-mesh?rev=1674898662&do=diff 3.5.4. ADD-MESH function optional Description Once you have created the model, the next step is to define the mesh that carries the geometrical information of your physical system. SesamX allows you to define the mesh piece by piece with successive calls to the text/html 2023-01-28T12:00:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/create_basis?rev=1674903652&do=diff 3.5.9. CREATE-BASIS function optional Description This function is used to create a basis of spatial vectors on the model. Currently, the only method available to create a basis is the CARTESIAN method. This method expects you to provide 2 non collinear vectors$\underline{u_{c_1}}$$\underline{u_{c_2}}$$(\underline{u_1}, \underline{u_2}, \underline{u_3})$$\underline{u_1} = \frac{\underline{u_{c_1}}}{\|\underline{u_{c_1}}\|}$$\underline{u_2} = \underline{u_{c_2}} - (\underline{u_{c_2}} \cdot \u… text/html 2023-01-28T15:10:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/create_constraint?rev=1674915031&do=diff 3.5.12. CREATE-CONSTRAINT function optional Description This function is used to create a constraint case on your model. Currently it allows single point constraint (SPC) definition, and thus it enables the definition of prescribed displacements at the nodes degrees of freedom$T_X = 0$$R_Z = 0$$T_X$$R_Z$$T_X = 0$$R_Y = 0$$T_X$$R_Y$$(\underline{u_1}, \underline{u_2}, \underline{u_3})$$u_1^1T_X + u_1^2T_Y + u_1^3T_Z = 3.$$u_2^1R_X + u_2^2R_Y + u_2^3R_Z = 5.$$u_1^i$$u_2^i$$\underline{u_1}$$\unde… text/html 2023-01-28T15:27:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/create_contact?rev=1674916061&do=diff 3.5.13. CREATE-CONTACT function optional This function is used to define contact conditions on the model. A contact condition consists of a non penetrability constraint between 2 geometrical entities of the model. For instance, 2 parts that cannot penetrate each other. To define a contact condition, you need to specify $ P_A $$ P_B $$ \underline{P_A P_B} \cdot \underline{n} \le 0 $ text/html 2023-01-28T11:32:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/create_load?rev=1674901922&do=diff 3.5.11. CREATE-LOAD function optional Description This function is used to define a load case on the model. You can only define concentrated or distributed loads on the nodes. When you use multiple branches in the same CREATE-LOAD function, the load definition works in an additive manner$x = 100 \ mm$$y = 0 \ mm$$z = 0 \ mm$ text/html 2023-01-28T12:00:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/create_materials?rev=1674903631&do=diff 3.5.8. CREATE-MATERIAL function optional Description This function is used to define a new material on the model. Currently, only elastic-isotropic materials can be defined. A density value is always required when defining a material, even though you are going to perform static analysis only. text/html 2023-01-28T11:59:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/create_model?rev=1674903551&do=diff 3.5.3. CREATE-MODEL function optional Description This function is used to create a new model from scratch in the database. Keywords Name Data Type Data number Optional Default value Physical quantity NAME STRING 1 NO Name of the model text/html 2023-01-28T14:54:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/create_properties?rev=1674914074&do=diff 3.5.10. SET-PROPERTIES function optional Description This function is used to define the element properties and describes how the elements will behave. There are 5 types of properties that you can define: * the standard truss property, * the Timoshenko beam property,$$ \lbrack \varepsilon\rbrack = \begin{bmatrix} \varepsilon_{11} \\ \varepsilon_{22} \\ \varepsilon_{33} \\ … text/html 2021-07-07T19:32:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/create_selection?rev=1625679139&do=diff 3.5.5. CREATE-SELECTION function optional Description SesamX allows you to define selections of mesh entities (nodes and elements) facilitating the definition of other SesamX objects (for instance loading cases, constraints, and so on). A selection can contain both nodes and elements text/html 2023-05-30T21:47:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/create_units?rev=1685476024&do=diff 3.5.2. SET-UNITS function optional unique Description SesamX embeds predefined physical quantities, each of them carries a unit that you are free to define. On input, each SesamX keyword is related to a physical quantity which provides the unit used to understand the numerical data. And this manual gives the physical quantity related to each keyword next to its description, as explained in the text/html 2023-01-28T11:01:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/import-inp?rev=1674900109&do=diff 3.5.7. IMPORT-INP function optional Description This function is used to import the content of a .inp (Abaqus) file into the specified SesamX model. You can import two kinds of data from a .inp file: * the mesh (nodes and elements), * the nodes and elements sets (NSET, ELSET). text/html 2023-01-28T11:01:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/import-med?rev=1674900064&do=diff 3.5.6. IMPORT-MED function optional Description This function is used to import the content of a .med (Salome) file into the specified SesamX model. You can import two kinds of data from a .med file: * the mesh (nodes and elements), * the nodes and elements groups. text/html 2023-05-30T21:54:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/output_image?rev=1685476462&do=diff 3.5.16. OUTPUT-IMAGE function optional Description This function is used to output images for various objects on a model: element characteristics, load cases, constraint cases and solutions. For each object, you can choose which fields you want to output as images. For instance, a load case allows you to output the force field or the moment field. text/html 2023-05-30T21:36:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/solve?rev=1685475365&do=diff 3.5.14. SOLVE function optional This function is used to compute a simulation response on the model. The results obtained are stored in a solution object that can be visualized using the OUTPUT-IMAGE function. In SesamX, a simulation is composed of multiple steps. Each step is associated with a specific physics and resolution procedure. To define a simulation scenario, you need to provide the sequence of steps that SesamX must solve. Before solving a step, SesamX initializes the step resoluti… text/html 2023-01-28T11:56:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.sesamx.io/doc/user_manual/sesamx/functions_description/use_database?rev=1674903398&do=diff 3.5.1. SET-DATABASE function optional unique Description This function is used to define the path to the SesamX database. If the database does not exist, it will be created. As mentioned in the SesamX input file page, the path provided can be absolute or relative. A relative path is understood relative to the directory containing the input file.