QuickField provides way to specify concentrated loads, surface and body forces. The concentrated loads are defined at vertices as two components of the corresponding vector. The surface forces at the edges of the model are specified by the vector components or by the normal pressure. The body forces are defined by their components within blocks of the model. Each component of the body force vector can be specified as a linear function of the coordinates. This feature can be used, for example, to model centrifugal forces. The normal pressure also can be linear function that is useful for hydrostatic pressure.
Note. The concentrated load is specified by the force per thickness unit for plane problems and by the total force value for axisymmetric ones. In the last case the force can be applied to the point at the axis of symmetry or distributed along the circle around the axis.
Any surface force which is directed along the normal to the surface can be described as a pressure. The pressure is considered positive if it is directed inside region at its outward boundary or from right to left at the inner boundary. Left and right are referred relative to the edge intrinsic direction, which is always counterclockwise for arcs and is determined for line segments by the order of picking vertices when the edge is created.