The second tab on the GUI provides the cylinder definition page. This page has two separate grid
controls as shown in Figure 6 below. The grid control on the left lists the radii for all the cylinder
interfaces, starting with the inner radius. A system of N cylinders with have N+1 interfaces. The
inner and outer interfaces are free-surfaces to which pressure boundary conditions can be
applied. All the other interfaces are bond interfaces that join the cylinders.
The grid control on the right has the actual cylinder definitions. Each cylinder definition requires
only two input parameters: the material name and the stress-free temperature. The cylinder
definition grid control also displays the inner and outer radii for each cylinder as well as the
cylinder mass. The inner and outer radii for each cylinder are automatically determined from the
interface radius list. The mass per unit length of each cylinder is computed based on the material
density. Click on the figure below to show additional information about the cylinder dialog page.
Figure 6. Cylinder Definition Dialog Page