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Modelling a floating roof

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Daniel2010

Petroleum
Oct 25, 2010
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Hy everyone!

I'm a beginner in using FEA, so please anyone help me with the following task: "to find the stresses in the roof plates on the supporting legs condition."

I'm trying to model a floating roof having a diameter of 22725 mm. It is also supported by 90 pieces of 4"OD pipes with reinforcing pads. The roof plates are 5 mm thickness.
I tried to model the roof with SHELL181 elements and the legs with pipe beams. When I run the aplication I receive the following message:

"The value of UY at node 5308 is 2.169...E+10. It is greater than the curent limit of 1000000.This generally indicates rigid body motion as a result of an unconstrained model. Verify that your model is properly constrained."

This node is somewhere in the middle of a plate.I modelled the whole roof.I anchored the legs at the base.
I don't know what to do next to solve the problem.
Any help will be very appreciated.

Dan
 
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