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    Harmonic loading definition

    Hello guys, I have found a pretty good video that shows how to define a dynamical load using ABAQUS/GUI: Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3t9Ge8BCw The duration is about 3 minutes and it explains it very quick - it might help!
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    Surface normal vector orientation

    Hi Gutboy17, do you have access to ANSA pre-processor? If yes, I can help you to create the "pressure loads" through the normal vector of the elements surface (that should point outwards).
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    Violated and Active Responses - Nastran Optimization

    Hi everyone, I have some questions regarding violated and active responses. As attachment to this post there is a excerpt of f06 file of an optimization cycle. There are 4 DRESP2 Responses, all of them have an upper bound of 0.19. If you look to the top, you can read the following...
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    Welding Aluminium - NX Nastran

    Hola Blasmolero! Thank you very much for your reply, in fact CWELDs are very useful connectors - indeed, I use them quite often in some seat models. My perception is in the company that I am working for they want to avoid the usage of this kind of connectors, sometimes if they have the same...
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    DESVAR Versus DCONSTR - Nastran

    Right JXB0809, I will avoid these practices [bigsmile]
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    Welding Aluminium - NX Nastran

    Hello everybody, I have some experience creating the FE models for the spot welds of steel structures like body-in-white (normally I use RBE3-CHEXA). Now, I am working for a new company where the body-in-white has some aluminium parts. Should it be expected a difference in the modelling of the...
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    DESVAR Versus DCONSTR - Nastran

    Hi Tuw, thank you for your reply. I agree with you, I am little bit concerned about increase the number of DCONSTR from 2 to 20, but probably there is no big difference in computational time.
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    DESVAR Versus DCONSTR - Nastran

    Hello guys, generally in an optimization problem what would increase more the simulation time, increase the number of design variables (DESVAR) or increase the number of constraints (DCONSTR)? Looking forward your feedback. Thanks
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    Hammer Test - Frequency Response Analysis

    Hi JoshPlum, you are welcome. I think this is the purpose of this forum: to learn with the community and have fun ;)
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    Hammer Test - Frequency Response Analysis

    Hi JoshPlum, thank you for your link, I will ask my manager to buy it for me. Thank you for your suggestion!
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    Modal Assurance Criterion - MAC

    Hello everyone, does anybody have experience using MAC? Could anyone explain me what is the importance of having the AUTOMAC coefficients for a given structure? I know that AUTOMAC can give the insight about how good is the node pair table used, but do you know any other aspect that is...
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    Hammer Test - Frequency Response Analysis

    I read the book from Ewins (Imperial College London) - Modal Testing, and he describes there the circle fitting method. However, Nyquist plot for a MDOF model unfortunately presents "poor circularity". I think it is difficult the modes there. Also the peak picking method to determine the normal...
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    Hammer Test - Frequency Response Analysis

    Hi JoshPlum, thank you for all your excitement during this quest! It is good to see people committed in FRF analysis :) Sure, this is really an academic problem, IDEAS is very popular to do this kind of stuff, but sadly I don't have a license available. Could you send me the link where I can...
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    MATLAB - Complex Mode Indicator Function

    Hello, can anyone explain me how this script works? Tool in Matlab to extract the modal parameters from FRF data (Complex Mode Indicator Function - CMIF): http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/9476-cmif-complex-mode-indicator-function/content/jzcmif.m
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    MATLAB - Symbolic variables are not working

    I have a small task to perform and the command “syms k m c” doesn’t work. If you have any idea why doesn’t work, please let me know.

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