CentralDifference Integrator

The CentralDifference integrator is an explicit time integration method for dynamic analysis.

Description

This integrator is particularly suitable for:

• Wave propagation problems

• Impact analysis

• Highly nonlinear dynamic problems

• Cases where computational efficiency per time step is important

• Systems with distributed mass matrices

The CentralDifference method is a second-order explicit method that computes the response at time t+Δt based on the equilibrium at time t.

Parameters

This integrator has no parameters.

Usage Example

# Create a CentralDifference integrator
integrator = fm.analysis.integrators.create_integrator("centraldifference")