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Computer‐Aided Design of Trusses Using TURBO PASCAL

1987; Wiley; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1467-8667.1987.tb00137.x

1467-8667

Hojjat Adeli, M. M. AL‐RIJLEH,

Topology Optimization in Engineering

This article presents interactive microcomputer‐aided design (MicroCAD) of steel plane trusses. A menu‐driven graphic‐based MicroCAD system has been developed for interactive analysis and design of statically determinate and indeterminate steel trusses using TURBO PASCAL Version 3.0 on an IBM PC with 256K of random access memory (RAM), called TRUSS2P. TRUSS2P makes extensive use of computer graphics for showing various configurations of the truss with or without joint numbering, member numbering, loading, member type numbering, cross sections of the members, and its deformed configuration under various loading conditions. Graphic manipulation capabilities of TRUSS2P are zooming, panning, scaling, rotating, shrinking, and expanding. Among the features of TRUSS2P are on‐line input modification capability, modify input menus, input error check, and automatic data generation and replication for nodal coordinates, member information, and loading on the truss. Member design information can be displayed for each member through split‐screen graphic‐text displays.