Hey everyone,
In the code ‘MakeSpecimen.dat’ of the PFC tutorial “Probing a Granular Sepcimen” I noticed the word ‘expand’. When using the search function, I couldn’t find its meaing. Can somebody help me out?
Thank you in advance!
Best,
Nick
Dear Nick,
it seems like we missed the keyword “expand” in the documentation. Thank you for making us aware of that!
What the keyword does is fairly simple: It expands the created walls by the value that you specify. See the two figures below for better understanding.
Figure 1: Using: wall generate name ‘vessel’ box -0.035 0.035 expand 1.5
Figure 2: Using: wall generate name ‘vessel’ box -0.035 0.035
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