21.4. The VEL* Data Record - Starting Velocities

* denotes structure number (see (1) below)

See General Description for a discussion of the interaction between the RDEP option and the POS*, VEL*, SLP* and SLV* data records.

      2   5  7   11        21        31        41        51        61
    - --- -- ---- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------
   |X|   |  |VEL1|XXXXXXXXX|         |         |         |         |  
    - --- -- ---- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------
       |  |   |                |          |         |         |         |
       |  |   |                |---------------------------------------------
       |  |   |                |
       |  |   |                |
       |  |   |                |_(2)-(7)6 Starting Velocities (default zero) (6F10.0) 
       |  |   |
       |  |   |_(1)Compulsory Data Record Keyword(A4)
       |  |
       |  |_Optional User Identifier(A2)
       |
       |_Compulsory END on Last Data Record in Data Category(A3)

(1) The data record keyword indicates the corresponding structure number for the positions in columns 21-80; for example, enter VEL1 for Structure 1, VEL2 for Structure 2, .... VE10 for Structure 10.

(2)-(7) This is the total velocity of the structure indicated by the data record keyword (1) at the start of the time-history simulation.