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.. _Lobatto-BeamIntegration:
   
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 Lobatto
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.. function:: beamIntegration('Lobatto',tag,secTag,N)
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   Create a Gauss-Lobatto beamIntegration object.
   Gauss-Lobatto integration is the most common approach for evaluating the response of
   :doc:`ForceBeamColumn` (`Neuenhofer and Filippou 1997`_) because it places an integration point at each end of the element, where bending moments are largest in the absence of interior element loads.

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   ``tag`` |int|              tag of the beam integration.
   ``secTag`` |int|           A previous-defined section object.
   ``N`` |int|                Number of integration points along the element.
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