David John Neiferd

I too would like to see an option to compress files before encryption with automatic decompression when the vault is opened. This would be very beneficial to users who use...

@manavbhatia and @jdeaton I think this initial beam library is ready to be moved into master. If you two could look it over, I'd appreciate it.

I was contemplating this as I was writing the tests. I did some searching online at that time, and it seemed like the more popular school of thought was to...

> I think @JohnDN90 was also doing something about nodal loads in adjoint sensitivity analysis. How does this fit into that? I think you might be referring to when I...

> The default options can be changed so that it runs out of the box. I will look into this. @manavbhatia are you talking about setting the options in the...

> How does Nastran define composite material property cards? Do you think an element reference may be needed there? I'm not sure how Nastran handles composite material property cards. I've...

Hmm, he doesn't show the derivation, but the stiffness matrix he presents does reduce to to the Euler-Bernoulli bending stiffness when kappa->inf. Do you happen to remember which reference you...

Thanks, I found the formulation in Section 5.4.1 of Bathe's book [here](http://web.mit.edu/kjb/www/Books/FEP_2nd_Edition_4th_Printing.pdf). I see what you're doing now, although it is different than the stiffness matrix I'm typically used to...

Pages 26-27 is where Cook discusses Timoshenko beams, only briefly. Although, the same stiffness matrix can be found in multiple journal articles, he references a few in the book. Edit:...

Comparing the two stiffness matrices for a single element cantilever beam, Cook's stiffness matrix matches Nastran and the analytical result available on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timoshenko_beam_theory#Example:_Cantilever_beam). The stiffness matrix from Bathe, the one...