Partial area load in Teddy

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I need to apply a unifomraly distributed area load in one part of the slab only. Please help with how to do the same. For eg: If I have a slab of 6m x 12m and I need to apply 3.5kN/m2 in the first 1.5m only(i.e 6 x 1.5m). What are the different ways in which this could be done in Teddy.
PS: I used LAR to define a load distribution area. While I can see it in the input loads, I cannot see it in the used loads.

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Hi,
the easiest way to achieve this is by using the AREA command in module SOFILOAD in which the four corner points of the uniformly distributed load can be specified. For example:

+prog sofiload
head
lc 99 type none
area ref auto type pg p1 3.5 x1 0 0 0 p2 3.5 x2 1.5 0 0 p3 3.5 x3 1.5 6 0 p4 3.5 x4 0 6 0
end

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Thank you for the reply. I tried it out and it worked. It is the simplest way!