dk

Mapdl.dk(kpoi='', lab='', value='', value2='', kexpnd='', lab2='', lab3='', lab4='', lab5='', lab6='', **kwargs)

Defines DOF constraints at keypoints.

APDL Command: DK

Parameters:

kpoi

Keypoint at which constraint is to be specified. If ALL, apply to all selected keypoints [KSEL]. If KPOI = P, graphical picking is enabled and all remaining command fields are ignored (valid only in the GUI). A component name may also be substituted for KPOI.

lab

Valid degree of freedom label. If ALL, use all appropriate labels except HDSP. Structural labels: UX, UY, or UZ (displacements); ROTX, ROTY, or ROTZ (rotations); WARP (warping); HDSP (hydrostatic pressure). Thermal labels: TEMP, TBOT, TE2, TE3, …, TTOP (temperature). Acoustic labels: PRES (pressure); UX, UY, or UZ (displacements for FSI coupled elements). Electric labels: VOLT (voltage). Magnetic labels: MAG (scalar magnetic potential); AX, AY, or AZ (vector magnetic potentials). Diffusion labels: CONC (concentration).

value

Degree of freedom value or table name reference for tabular boundary conditions. To specify a table, enclose the table name in percent signs (%) (e.g., DK,NODE,TEMP,%tabname%). Use the *DIM command to define a table.

value2

Second degree of freedom value (if any). If the analysis type and the degree of freedom allow a complex input, VALUE (above) is the real component and VALUE2 is the imaginary component.

kexpnd

Expansion key:

0 - Constraint applies only to the node at this keypoint.

1 - Flags this keypoint for constraint expansion.

lab2, lab3, lab4, … , lab6

Additional degree of freedom labels. The same values are applied to the keypoints for these labels.

Notes

A keypoint may be flagged using KEXPND to allow its constraints to be expanded to nodes on the attached solid model entities having similarly flagged keypoint constraints. Constraints are transferred from keypoints to nodes with the DTRAN or SBCTRAN commands. The expansion uses interpolation to apply constraints to the nodes on the lines between flagged keypoints. If all keypoints of an area or volume region are flagged and the constraints (label and values) are equal, the constraints are applied to the interior nodes of the region. See the D command for a description of nodal constraints.

Tabular boundary conditions (VALUE = %tabname%) are available only for the following degree of freedom labels: Electric (VOLT), structural (UX, UY, UZ, ROTX, ROTY, ROTZ), Acoustic (PRES, UX, UY, UZ), and temperature (TEMP, TBOT, TE2, TE3, …, TTOP).

Constraints specified by the DK command can conflict with other specified constraints. See Resolution of Conflicting Constraint Specifications in the Basic Analysis Guide for details.

This command is also valid in PREP7.