Hello,
I try to get a better understanding of the meaning of the output vector for stresses in femap, and I'm a bit confused now!!
With femap, we can get for a plate element, X normal, Y normal and XY shear stress. So I believe these are the components of the stress tensor.
But X and Y are...
Hello,
I think the title is a good summary of the question!
During FE process, the stiffness matrix requires integration, and it is approximated at the gauss points.
But I wonder how accurate this is. It's a bit strange not to try to calculate the exact value of the integral and instead just...
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I've got a quick question about SOL 106 that I am using for non linear buckling.
I've got 10 load cases (10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90,100 bar pressure cases), and I would like to predict buckling for that.
The output gives me ALPHA values, usually not far from eigenvalues. From this...
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I'm fairly new to FEA,so I try to get a good sense of the effect of the element type to know which one to choose for an analysis.
I cannot really figure out why a TRIA would be stiffer than a QUAD, same for HEX vs TET.
So how can I know which is the best option to choose?
I guess the...
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I think the title is a good summary!
I have a region on my design which has a interference fit bush, which I modelled with RBE2.
The first question is: is it accurate to model it that way?
Secondly, by running a non linear static, would having a RBE2 create inconsistent results? I...
Hello everybody,
I would like to run a non linear static to account for large displacements. The pressure load to apply has a large magnitude so I would like to create a sort of break down by having incremental loading.
Is it possible in femap to do that? I guess I can create several load...
