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Correct the SSPquadUP argument descriptions - #197

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Corrects the argument descriptions on the SSPquadUP page to match the code:

  • $alpha is the pressure stabilization parameter, not 1 - Ks/Kf: it scales the pressure Laplacian added to the element's compressibility matrix. The recommended value is the one on the element's OpenSees wiki page, 0.25h^2/(rho c^2), with rho c^2 = K + 4G/3 written out as on the SSPbrickUP page.
  • $Pup $Plow $Pleft $Pright are normal tractions on the solid, positive along the outward normal. They are applied in full rather than through a load pattern, and can be changed through the pressure...Side parameters. The page called them boundary pore pressures.
  • $k1 $k2 act along the global axes, as hydraulic conductivity over the unit weight of the fluid.
  • The recorder note listed force and material $matNum, which the element does not answer. It now lists stress2D3, strain2D3 and the queries passed on to the material, and states that the pore pressure is the velocity response of DOF 3.

Companion to the OpenSees change that fixes the SSPquadUP fluid compressibility at zero solid density and its lower-side pressure load.

The page described $alpha as a 1 - Ks/Kf parameter and the four
trailing arguments as boundary pore pressures. In the code, alpha scales
the pressure stabilization matrix, for which the element's authors
recommend 0.25h^2/(rho c^2), and Pup, Plow, Pleft and Pright are normal
tractions on the solid, positive outward, applied in full rather than
through a load pattern. The permeabilities act along the global axes,
as hydraulic conductivity over the unit weight of the fluid.

The recorder note listed force and material $matNum, neither of which
the element answers. It now lists stress2D3, strain2D3 and the queries
passed on to the material, and states that the pore pressure is the
velocity response of DOF 3.
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