Dear all,
I am new to Opensim and I want to be able to extract the forces from the Elastic foundation model (EFM).
As far as my understanding about the EFM goes, EFM is used when the contact surface is used as a triangular mesh and it calculates a single point force from the force calculated at the center of individual triangular elements of the mesh, as I have read in the ElasticFoundationForce.cpp in void ElasticFoundationForceImpl::calcForce().
I want to be able to extract this force, but on individual elements as done in ElasticFoundationForceImpl::processContact().
Is it possible that an Analysis plugin for this purpose already exists? How should I go about writing this plugin?
Best regards,
Uday Phutane,
Chair of Applied Dynamics
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg