cable fot tensile structure

Hello everyone!
For my thesis I'm studying glass facades supported by tensile structures, so I'm trying to replicate the behavior of cables in a vertical facade in Grasshopper, in particular with Karamba.
By now I've done a beam component for the cables and a mesh that simulates the glass.
The forces I want in my cables are the pretension, the weight of glass applied to attacks and the wind as a point load on the attacks. On the glass I want to simulate the wind as a mesh load. So my question is: Karamba is the best plug-in to do that structural analysis? If yes, can I transform the "mesh load" of the wind in "point load" just for the cables and maintain both?

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Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on February 21, 2017 at 1:15pm

Hi Sofia,

the AnalyzeThII-component takes account of the geometric stiffness due to axial forces but still assumes small displacements. This means that transverse beam or truss displacements do not result in additional axial strains (see e.g. example '...\Karamba\Examples\TestExamples\Analyze_ThII_Truss.gh').

Best,

Clemens