Recent content by Regretful

Why dont you share your input file? Its almost impossible to determine why there is a problem from your current description.

Looks like its enlarging because of the rotation, i.e. only visually.

You have an error in your model. Thats the best I can do with the information you have given.

Looking initially it doesnt seem like you would get too much bending moment in the bolts themselfes. http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/238678/238678.pdf

Perhaps a figure of some kind could help? I do not understand the need for cohesive elements if you want zero thickness.

One way that i found it to simplify things when it would be the same with a symmetry boundary is: Imagine putting a piece of paper in the middle of your problem. Would the paper move from what is happening? If not then you have a symmetry boundary. Opposing equal forces is probably as...

Usually for clusters Linux is used, but that's probably not because simulations run much faster but because the terminal type input eases multiple user interactions with the machines. To answer your question, the OS should not have any effect on the simulation times unless there are background...

You can open a new terminal and run another job. Or if you are not doing an interactive job you can just type the command again with the new job name.

I don't know if this is possible, i would probably define a pressure on the inside surface of the bottle.

Linear buckling analysis is made from eigenproblem analysis from the stiffness without imperfection, you will have different buckling loads for different stiffnesses and geometries. If you get imperfections from first buckling analysis you will get new buckling loads. Maybe you are thinking...

Heat Energy = Degrees above reference temperature x Mass x Specific heat capacity For 1kg of water 1 degree above reference temperature is equivalent to 4185.5 Joule. E_h = T_r x m x c_p Good luck

General-purpose polystyrene is clear, hard, and rather brittle according to wikipedia. So that fits what it looks like at least (for example cd case fronts is made of this and they are very clear)

Generally for bending and such you need a couple of solid elements through the thickness to get a result that is close to what you can achieve with shell elements.

Is there some sort of thickness added to the surface of the solid elements that causes penetrations? Also, if i am not mistaken SOL101 is a linear solver and this problem looks like it could be non-linear. Good luck

Create a shell mesh, then add an RBE2 element to the surface. Cheers