Thank you very much indeed for your valuable help.
PARAM,OMID,YES does work with the linear solver 101 and that solves half of my problems :)
Unfortunately it doesn't work with the non-linear solver 106 although in Nastran manual it is written it does :( I keep getting the stresses in the...
You are right, the default option for stresses is:
STRESS(SORT1,PRINT,REAL,VONMISES,CENTER,RPRINT)=ALL
Where CENTER means that, for CQUAD4, the stresses are given at the centre only.
I have already tried using the option CORNER instead of CENTER to have also the stresses at the corner of the...
The node coordinate system is the right one, the problem is that stresses are printed in the CQUAD4 element coordinate system which depends in the way the nodes are numbered. For that reason displacements are in the right coordinate system, but stresses are not.
I tried using:
PARAM,S1M,1
which...
Hi everybody,
I am working with NASTRAN and I have a problem.
When I use CQUAD4 elements, the stresses are given in the element reference system. That reference system is computed by NASTRAN using the element diagonal bisector method. Basically, the x-axis is between the node2 and node3 of the...
Hi everybody,
I am working with NASTRAN and I have a problem.
When I use CQUAD4 elements, the stresses are given in the element reference system. That reference system is computed by NASTRAN using the element diagonal bisector method. Basically, the x-axis is between the node2 and node3 of the...
Thank very much for your help.
I thought about coating CHEXAs with CQUADs but the problem is...what property and thickness should I give the CQUADs in order not to affect the analysis?
I am working with 3D elements (CHEXA) using NASTRAN. I need to use rigid elements and I am using RBE2s but they are not rigid at all for 3D analysis. I have alread used those elements before (2D models) and they work great but when I try and connect brick elements the rigid elements RBE2 are not...
