Question in REFIN elment orientation

- February 2, 2023 at 2:39 am
  
  mk lone
  Subscriber
  
  Hello, everyone,
  I used REFIN264 to stimulate rebars, but I don't understand what it means in the command reference(figure.1).
  For example,the following command is
  secd,2,50.26,EDGo,1,0.5,1,0.5,1
  esel,s,cent,x,24,48,,0
  secn, 2!
  EREINF
  There are two questions
  1. Do the command mean the orientation of element REFIN264 is identical to the coordinate system of selected elements？
  2. What is the element edge(the element coordinate system?)
  
  Many thanks.
- February 2, 2023 at 10:13 am
  
  Erik Kostson
  Ansys Employee
  
  Hi
  
  Normally I use them in WB/Mechanical where they are just modeled as line bodies.
  
  I know from the past that it can be confusing and tricky to do this manually via mapdl snippets.
  
  All the best
  Erik
- February 2, 2023 at 11:24 am
  
  mk lone
  Subscriber
  
  Thanks for your reply, I will use them in WB😆.
- February 2, 2023 at 11:29 am
  
  Erik Kostson
  Ansys Employee
  
  There are some posts about this:
  https://forum.ansys.com/forums/topic/reinforced-concrete-with-shear-reinforcement/
  https://forum.ansys.com/forums/topic/reinforcement/
  https://forum.ansys.com/forums/topic/modelling-concrete-with-reinforcement-using-new-feature/
  All the best
  Erik

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