Hi Roozbeh,
Hope you're doing well. I used to work with you at Delve Underground. I'm posting here with a few ADONIS software queries and was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction:

Beam displacement & Forces (at Beam nodes) extraction via scripting
Is there a way to extract beam results such as displacements, shear forces, bending moments, and axial loads directly through scripting? When I use PlotQuery for displacement extraction, it appears to return only the magnitude of the displacement vector rather than the directional components. I'm wondering if there's a specific API or command to extract nodal/element results with their individual components.


Reset Structural Initial
My goal is to set a beam/liner element's displacement to zero after the gravity initialization stage. During initialization, I reset the soil displacements using Initial("xydisp", 0), but the wall/liner still shows a downward displacement. I then tried using Reset Structural Initial, but the structural displacements do not appear to reset to zero. Is this the expected behaviour? If so, what is the recommended way to make the current deformed position of the beam/liner the new zero-displacement reference?


Interface plot export and interface stress extraction
I'm having trouble exporting interface plots. Is this a known limitation, or is there a specific workflow for exporting them? Also, is there a way to extract interface stresses directly through scripting? - export button is disabled when interface stresses are plotted ?


Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hi Harmeet,

Good to hear from you. See below my responses:

Beam displacement & Forces (at Beam nodes) extraction via scripting:

Unfortunately, there isn't currently a function to extract structural node information. I think it would be useful to add this functionality in a future release. I'll work on it later.


Reset Structural Initial:

When you reset the displacement, it should set the total displacement to zero. If that's not happening, there may be an issue. If possible, please send me a simple script that reproduces the issue so I can recreate it and take a closer look.


Interface plot export and interface stress extraction:

When it's disabled, it means the functionality hasn't been implemented yet. Unfortunately, it may take some time, as I currently have other functionalities with higher priority. However, this will eventually be included.

Hi Roozbeh, Thanks for your response please see the below attached file for script , you will notice that under gravity after solving soil displacements,Beam element forces becomes 0 but not the displacement of beam element roughly 24mm can be seen.