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  1. tomsing

    Instruction for managing new Thread Notifications and Accessing your watched forums

    Not thrilled about all of a sudden getting a ton of emails for "watched forums". I don't remember watching anything. I get more than enough garbage email during election season in the US, I certainly don't need you all adding to it.
  2. tomsing

    Grid Point Singularity Table - specifically BF set?

    Fixed the font with the [code] tag.... The users manual doesn't go into a ton of detail about the GPST. I've got a programmers manual from 1972, which I'm not particularly adept at deciphering. Haven't tried Siemens help. Honestly, this isn't particularly critical, it's just something I...
  3. tomsing

    Grid Point Singularity Table - specifically BF set?

    I thought the tt tag would do a monospace font. Apparently I thought wrong. I don't see a way to control the font otherwise.... Anyway, this is just a toy model, single cantilevered bar element, I use as an example. It's deliberately set up to show AUTOSPC constraining something that shouldn't...
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    Grid Point Singularity Table - specifically BF set?

    In Siemens' NX Nastran (and I assume other flavors of Nastran), the grid point singularity table outputs some info that I mostly understand, but I wanted to clarify some of it. Can't find great detail in the User's Guide or QRG. (Apologies if this table comes through oddly spaced.) 0...
  5. tomsing

    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    Ok, so somewhere between the first rev of the data sheet in 1941 and third revision of the data sheet in 1963, the long sides simple, short sides clamped case was adjusted, and agrees with Galambos. And apparently also the all sides clamped case was adjusted as well. This is interesting and...
  6. tomsing

    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    So, the page in my internal manual is dated 1953, so that predates your copy of the data sheet. The copy of the data sheet I got from JHU has individual sections marked as revised over time; section 02.03.01 is marked Issued May, 1941; the overall table of contents for the volume is marked...
  7. tomsing

    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    Interesting! Is there any chance you could send me a copy? I was able to find a copy at Johns Hopkins, and that agreed with other sources. Perhaps yours is an earlier revision? I don't recall seeing a date or anything on what I was looking at, maybe I should take a closer look.
  8. tomsing

    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    Depending on the source, the coefficient is sometimes presented with the π^2/12(1-nu^2) factor built in, without that factor built in, sometimes presented as sqrt(k). I'm accounting for that, and the curve in my chart matches where it should be at aspect ratios of 0 (infinitely long) and 1...
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    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    I was ready to go with an updated chart. But my boss is concerned that we need a good story to tell on this one. Thank you, Wil! I'll reach out to them.
  10. tomsing

    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    Oh, I'm sure it's an error in my chart. I'm just trying to figure out how to explain it so I can make a case to update it.
  11. tomsing

    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    You mean the chart I'm looking at, with the apparent error? I'd prefer not to. Got company markings on it.
  12. tomsing

    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    Yes. That's how I come to think that the article in the Data Sheets is 02.03.01, because ESDU 71005 notes that it supersedes that. But ESDU 71005 doesn't match my chart, it matches all the other sources. It's possible the Data Sheets had an error that was corrected in the transition, or maybe...
  13. tomsing

    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    Ran out of space in the post... My search for the Data Sheets has turned up nothing online. The US National Forest Service library had a physical copy, and their librarian took a look and said it was incomplete, didn't include 02.03.01, nor was there anything else that looked like flat plate...
  14. tomsing

    Looking for the Royal Aeronautic Society Data Sheets from the 1940s.

    I'm on a bit of a scavenger hunt. I've got a chart of shear buckling coefficients vs aspect ratio for unstiffened rectangular flat panels with different boundary conditions (all sides simply supported, all sides clamped, long sides SS/short sides C, and long C/short SS). One of my colleagues...
  15. tomsing

    Superelement f06 output - epsilon, spcforce resultant

    I think this is getting at what I was missing. I found the MSC superelements guide at simcompanion.hexagon.com/customers/s/article/superelement-user-s-guide-doc9185; it's significantly more detailed than the NX manual, looks to have been significantly revised since it forked. Just for future...
  16. tomsing

    Superelement f06 output - epsilon, spcforce resultant

    Using the NX Nastran SE users guide (and NX Nastran V12). It doesn't go into epsilon at all. I'm pretty sure the epsilon calc predates 2001 and is common to all flavors of Nastran, and the NX guide started off as the MSC guide, so I'd be surprised if it's in MSC's, either. I understand what Koo...
  17. tomsing

    Superelement f06 output - epsilon, spcforce resultant

    From a superelement newbie - what should I be looking for in the f06 file for a superelement creation run, and an assembly run? Just looking at linear static for the moment. If it matters, I'm currently playing around with the PCH output format. Unfortunately, the SE users manual doesn't seem...
  18. tomsing

    How to combine different output sets in the Case Control?

    Yeah, I think the solution is copy & paste. Tried requesting multiple copies of an output, like SET 1=10 THRU 20 SET 2=50 THRU 60 DISP = 1 DISP = 2 and Nastran ignores all but the last. Depending on what you're interested in, you could maybe do a separate subcase for each request, maybe...
  19. tomsing

    How to combine different output sets in the Case Control?

    Did you ever find a solution to this?
  20. tomsing

    NASA Astronautics Structures Manual errata

    Ok, finished digging into these. The complete list: Case 1: H = 30ab/(2Lh(2K+3)) should be 3Qab/(2Lh(2K+3)) Case 7: X3 = -wc/(2L) * [d3/L + c2/9 + 51c3/(810L) + c2b/(6L) - d2] should be X3 = -wc/(2L) * [d3/L + c2/9 + 51c3/(810L) - c2b/(6L) - d2] (Plus sign on the c2b/(6L) term should be minus...
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