PT999
Structural
- Oct 3, 2002
- 150
I am modelling a theoretical 2 ft square steel plate to see how it works, and not getting good results.
I have created a shell, segmented it to 16 pieces, gave it 1/4" thickness, added pressure load, provided restraints at 4 corner, and added pressure load to the load condition equations.
It runs without errors, but the results are always 6.94 E -11, no matter if I increase the pressure or not.
What I do see is that a pressure load entered for a specific load (say snow load) appears OK, but in the summary equation for cases
Lets say Case 1 = DL + SNOW, the same load appears as zero.
So - I must be missing something.
I have created a shell, segmented it to 16 pieces, gave it 1/4" thickness, added pressure load, provided restraints at 4 corner, and added pressure load to the load condition equations.
It runs without errors, but the results are always 6.94 E -11, no matter if I increase the pressure or not.
What I do see is that a pressure load entered for a specific load (say snow load) appears OK, but in the summary equation for cases
Lets say Case 1 = DL + SNOW, the same load appears as zero.
So - I must be missing something.