Activating Bending Excess

Bending excess can be defined as a simple "over-length" to curved shell stiffeners via the OVERLENGTH keyword. Furthermore, an extended functionality to define bending excess is available. Within the scope of a selected method, the bending excess will be calculated and applied to the profile. The simple over-length addition will be used if no method is selected. Modelling excess, such as excess defined for endcuts, is regarded to be included in bending excess.

Two methods exist, M1 and M2. For each of the methods various parameters can be set to control detailed behavior. All parameters controlling bending excess shall be set in the profile restriction file.