Certainly locations where the skin needs all the support it can get, such as at door cutouts, you will see integral frames. This comes at weight cost however, as your moment of inertia is reduced due to having the frame closer to the skin. Likewise, shimming becomes an issue with integral...
I have to agree with btrueblood, the aerospace industry is currently facing the biggest crisis it has ever faced, so hiring of new grads has stopped for the most part, and many open positions are being filled by recently laid-off engineers with great resumes, as you've noticed. I'm sorry to tell...
You can find help in MSC's Linear Static Analysis User Guide, it applied to NX Nastran as well. If you want detailed help, post your bdf.
If your normal modes analysis matches, but your static analysis doesn't, you might be forgetting your "P2G=PAX" line.
Apologies nekcorp, I gave you bad advice! I didn't notice that both of your runs use a FORCE ID of 1 to apply the load. It seems that the restart process keeping the Fx load in the MASTER file after the Fx run, then it gets combined with you Fz load in the Fz run.
Try using "RESTART...
Well, that's unfortunate. The only other thing that comes to mind is to see if you can design in some small gussets between the attach flange and neck to take some load away from that fillet. It might be tricky getting in them in such that you can still install the fasteners, though.
If it...
The problem is with your restart version, every time you run a restart, the version of your MASTER is incremented by one, and the previous version MASTER is deleted by default. So, after you ran the Fz load, your version is now 2, but then your Fx run has the line "RESTART VERSION=1", which...
Honestly, with your issues being so close to the fasteners, I think a lot of your stress is due to having to deal with your fixed boundaries at the fasteners, especially since your fasteners are going to have some give axially due to how long and thin they are. Rather than considering them...
I don't know much about NX, but even the more recent versions of MSC Nastran (since 2013, I believe) add a subroutine that converts these integers to reals before running as a "convenience". Personally, I always shut this functionality off in MSC Nastran by adding the keyword 'ifpstar=no', don't...
