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  1. gwildavies

    Compressing ribbed cylinder- help requested

    Hello, thanks for your reply. Deformation factor is 0.56.., does this shed light? Your explanation goes some way towards explaining, thanks. But I would expect the 'bars' to remain flat and parallel with the ribs buckled beneath, rather than poking through the ostensibly solid 'bars'. Might...
  2. gwildavies

    Compressing ribbed cylinder- help requested

    Dear All, I have a little experience with COSMOSWorks and have had good results in the past with simple models, but have come up against a problem which I now need to solve: I'd like to induce a kink in a ribbed tube by compressing it between two small surfaces. My technique was to draw the...

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