33.3.6 Select Radiating Boundary Zones Dialog Box

The Select Radiating Boundary Zones dialog box allows you to include or exclude participation of S2S radiation. See Section  13.3.3 for details. This dialog box opens when you click on the Select... button in the View Factor and Cluster Parameters dialog box.

Controls

Maximum of distances between Critical Zone and other Zones   displays the maximum of the distances between critical and other zones. This field is not editable. This is available when using the Automatic option for clustering.

Compute   calculates the distance from the critical zone to all the other zones and displays it in the Maximum of distances between Critical Zone and other Zones field and the Maximum distance of Participating Zone from Critical Zone field. It requires the definition of the critical zone.

Maximum of distances between Critical Zone and other Zones   displays the maximum distance (similar to the Maximum of distances between Critical Zone and other Zones when Compute is clicked). You can edit this field. You will enter a distance, such that all the zones having a distance from the critical zone greater than the specified distance will be made non-participating and will therefore be placed in the non-paricipation boundary list. Note that this field is available when using the Automatic option for clustering.

Apply   is similar to the Compute button in that it actually calculates the Maximum distance of Participating Zone from Critical Zone and moves the zones to the Non-Participating Boundary Zones list.

Select Zones   conains a list of participating and non-participating boundary zones, where selected zones can be moved back and forth from one list to the other.

Participating Boundary Zones   shows all the participating zones.

Non-Participating Boundary Zones   shows all the non-participating zones.

Display Zones   allows you to display all participating zones, non-participating zones, or a mixture of both to find out visually if you have missed any zones.