Panel Calculation model

[tord]

Hello ARSA support

Can you please give me a guideline when i should use the various of "panel calculation models".
I think it should help me if you could give me some examples on where to use them.

Is there a timeconsuming thought about it?
Are some of them more accuracy in the calculation?
Are some of them wrong (dangerous) to use in special cases?

I have tried to find more information in the Help-file but i don't get any wiser.
Please teach me.

There is some default "panel calculation models" like:
-Curtain wall
-Shell
-Deck slab (one-way)
-Slab-Flexible diaphragm
-Slab-Rigid diaphragm

And they are configurable in many ways.

Elastic stiffnes
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  -Without FE
  -With FE
       -(Shell)

Rigid connections of nodes for the slab
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  -Without stiffening
  -Stiffening diaphragm
       -(Flexible stiffening in XY)
       -(Full stiffening Rigid body)

Transfer of loads
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  -Analytival FE
  -Simplified
       -(One way)
       -(Two way)

Best regards and i wish you a happy christmas / Tord

[Rafal.Gaweda · Accepted solution]

check these :

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Robot-Structural-Analysis/Long-calculation-time-Reordering/m-p/4462727...

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Robot-Structural-Analysis/HELP-with-generating-mesh-for-Rigid-Diaphrag...

[tord]

Thank´s that helped a lot