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Good to see irrelevant posts being submitted by the usual suspects. Please keep to the topic ! I've reported them to the Mods this time.

Can you guys keep to the topic please ! I'm not interested in reading about traffic jams you get in to, this part of the forum is about other stuff. Perhaps the moderators can remind people of that ? CHE

Surprised this one hadn't made it to these pages as yet :- https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/07/africa/five-dead-and-49-missing-as-multi-story-building-collapses-in-south-africa/index.html CHE

JohnRBaker (Mechanical)(OP)10 Nov 23 17:21 Actually, I suspect that it was the other hanger, Hanger #2, which is still standing, was where the aeromodellers were allowed to perform. Your suspicions are incorrect. CHE

This was a historical hanger for aeromodellers like me with many world records set, some in very recent years,inside it's volume. There are few available hangers for high ceiling flying and this one was highly prized due to it's benign conditions. CHE

If you just want to plot the contacted elements then you can use the Select Elements menu and then plot the selected items. You might want to create and run a small procedure fil eif you need to do it a plot - there isn't a direct way as far as I know. CHE

You could plot the contact status then go into the Select Elements menu to just display the contacted elements. You can then use Length Area & Volume Calculations to work out the contacting area. There may be better ways of course. CHE

If you know the length over which the axial shortning occurred then you'll have stress v's strain that you can use in a tabular form. I'd suggest you post this question in the general FEA section as it isn't specific to MARC, but materials testing.

One satisfied customer here :- http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS130302+17-Aug-2009+GNW20090817 Check out videos of the blade in action, very impressive. Mind you, when I was demo'd SimExpert it wasn't well enough developed for my application.

I don't think so. For example, the .t16 doesn't include material data. I assume you have deleted your .mud/.dat file by mistake ?

I am modelling a circular structure subject to tension and bending loads. I need to use equivalent material properties due to it's complex internal structure and the surrounding components that are also being modelled. I have some test data for axial, torsion and bending stiffness but certainly...

Please explain; do you want to terminate a loadcase yet keep the job running ie skip to another loadcase ? If so, I don't see how you can do this and why you'd want to do it.

johnhors, Can't be too specific I'm afraid but my benchmark problem involved contact of hundreds of parts which itself causes most FEA solvers to fail. For example, we have had many individuals claim that you can do it Ansys (implicit) but the latest one, a UK help desk veteran, couldn't get it...

I run MSC Marc and Ansys/Dyna FEA on a Dell M70. You can get these for £200 on eBay !

You need to benchmark your choice of solvers against an application that your will be analysing. I have been told so many times that FEA Package A will do, say, non-linear contact with friction, but when you give them a realistic job it will just fall down. My last benchmark activity included...

BCA jig borer; see here :- http://www.lathes.co.uk/bca/index.html Got one in my workshop and it's brilliant. One came up for sale recently.

giveithere, I wanted to create a geometry, meshing and solver for a specific product type. It could have done it but not at the standard I saw it. Cost was also a factor.

I have reviewed SymExpert recently and had a demo. It is a scripting package that adds on to, say, Nastran that allows the user to produce dedicated input, solve, and output interfaces. The aim is to sidestep Patran and input model variables via a GUI. MSC have sold suit systems to companies to...

"Would I be appropriate to approach our manager and ask if this can be stopped, or am I just overly sensitive to those sounds? " No and yes. Now move on.

Dyna is an explicit code meaning it works on equations of motion rather than a stiffness matrix and hence is on stable for short duration event such as crash or ballistic studies. You can use it for quasi-static analyses if you are careful ........... just like I'm about to do. The 'Ansys' bit...