Prescribed Displacement/Rotation
The Prescribed Displacement/Rotation node adds an edge, boundary, domain, or point condition to a model where the displacements and rotations are prescribed in one or more directions.
With this condition it is possible to prescribe a displacement in one direction or one of the rotations, leaving the shell free to deform or rotate in the other directions.
Coordinate System Selection
Specify the coordinate system to use for specifying the prescribed displacement/rotation. The coordinate system selection is based on the geometric entity level.
Domains (Plate interface)
From the Coordinate system list select from:
Boundaries (Shell and Plate interfaces)
From the Coordinate system list select from:
Boundary System (a predefined normal-tangential coordinate system)
Edges (Shell interface)
From the Coordinate system list select from:
Global coordinate system (the standard global coordinate system).
Local edge system (the default).
Points (Shell and Plate interfaces)
From the Coordinate system list select from:
Face Defining the Local Orientations
This setting is used in conjunction with a Local edge system and Shell Local System. If displacement or rotations is prescribed for an edge or point which is shared between boundaries, the local system can be ambiguous. Select the boundary which should define the local system. The default is Use face with lowest number.
Prescribed Displacement
To define a prescribed displacement for each spatial direction (x, y, and z), select one or all of the Prescribed in x direction, Prescribed in y direction, and Prescribed in z direction check boxes. Then enter a value or expression for the prescribed displacements u0, v0, or w0.
Prescribed Rotations
Select a prescribed rotation from the By list — Free, Rotation, or Normal vector. Select:
Free (the default) to leave the rotations unconstrained.
Rotation to activate a prescribed rotation in a direction. Enter a value or expression for the prescribed rotation θ in each row for the local tangential directions t1 and t2. Under For small strains, select one or both of the Free rotation around t1 direction and Free rotation around t2 direction check boxes to remove the constraint for the corresponding rotation component. If unchecked, the rotations are constrained to either the input value or to the default zero rotation. The status of the check boxes has no effect when the geometric nonlinearity is activated under the study settings. This is because the constraints put on different rotation components are not independent of each other in case of finite rotations.
In 2D axisymmetry, there is only one input, the Prescribed rotation around the out-of-plane direction, Θ.
Normal vector to describe the rotational degrees of freedom as a prescribed normal vector. Enter the components of the Prescribed normal vector N0.
Constraint Settings
To display this section, click the Show More Options button () and select Advanced Physics Options in the Show More Options dialog box.
In the COMSOL Multiphysics Reference Manual:
When Individual dependent variables is selected in the Apply reaction terms on drop-down list, the constraint forces are applied directly on the degrees of freedom, which are the displacements along the global coordinate axes. If you use this setting together with a local coordinate system, the results will be inconsistent since the constraint forces will not match the constraint orientation.
You can add a Harmonic Perturbation subnode for specifying a harmonic variation of the values of the prescribed displacements in a frequency domain analysis of perturbation type.
Location in User Interface
Context Menus
Ribbon
Physics tab with Shell selected:
Physics tab with Plate selected: