Remove blade pitch actuator from BeamDyn and blade PitchAxis from ElastoDyn#3105
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deslaughter merged 7 commits intoOpenFAST:dev-tcfrom Dec 16, 2025
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Remove blade pitch actuator from BeamDyn and blade PitchAxis from ElastoDyn#3105deslaughter merged 7 commits intoOpenFAST:dev-tcfrom
deslaughter merged 7 commits intoOpenFAST:dev-tcfrom
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This functionality has been superseded by the blade pitch DOF in ElastoDyn and the pitch actuator model in ServoDyn.
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Feature or improvement description
This PR removes the incomplete blade pitch actuator implementation in BeamDyn. This functionality has been superseded by the blade-pitch DOF in ElastoDyn and the pitch actuator model in ServoDyn (PR #3039).
The unused blade
PitchAxisinput column is also removed from ElastoDyn. The legacy 6-column distributed blade property input table is no longer supported. From now on, the blade property table must have 5 columns withPitchAxisremoved.Related issue, if one exists
PR #3039
Impacted areas of the software
BeamDyn, glue-code, ElastoDyn, openfast_io
Test results, if applicable
No change to existing test results after removing the Pitch Actuator section of BeamDyn input files and deleting the
PitchAxiscolumn from ElastoDyn blade input files.