modeling pipeline surrounding soil with spring elements

[Ahm127]

Hi
I’m working on a pipeline subjected to fault displacement.
I should model pipe with shell elements and surrounding soil with spring(or connector) elements.
My problems:
1-If i use spring element (defined in property module),How could I impose loading on springs?(coz of fault, soil surrounding soil should moves, respectively node of spring witch reflects the free surface should move)
2-If I use connector element(interaction module) how could i assign connector to series of points at the same time?(if you wana define connector to ground it just allow you to select 1 point eachtime, while i have thousands of point on my shell pipe)
Tanx if you could help me.
best reg

 

[Mustaine3]

1. Loads cannot be applied in regular springs.

2. Create one connector manually and then take the Python commands in the .rpy as basis for a script that does the job for a large number of nodes.