BEAMPILE

This command separates piles from the rest of model, then reconnects piles to the model by adding springs along the pile interface. The command begins by duplicating the beam nodes and reconnects the element to the duplicate node. Then springs are added between the original node and the duplicate connected to the pile. A spring groups will be added for each time this command is issued. The one spring groups connect beam to the rest of the model with transnational stiffness of 10⁷. All springs created have a 4% damping. Beam piles are identified by setting the ETYPE of the beam to 2. This command only works with identified beam elements. The SOLIDPILE command has been created for models that use piles with solid pile elements.