Stiffened Plate output

[sushi75]

Hi everybody,

FE is not all about piece of art with nice colors, but still! I've got a plate stiffened with beam, and I would like to now if it is possible to display stress on the beam as well as on the plate?

I've attached a screenshot to illustrate the problem.

Thanks a lot fir your help!

Cheers,

 

[APav]

Hi,

Yes, starting in FEMAP v10.3 (or maybe v11), in the "Select Post Processing Data" window (the "{}" button) you have the "Multiple Contour Vectors" button, which is thought out for this: plotting results on different types of elements.

Be advised though: if you select 2 vectors on the same element type, FEMAP won't automatically do the max of the two.
So in your case I suppose you would select something like "Top Von Mises stress" for the plates and "End A Max combined stress" for the beam.

Do not do the following:
1) selecting both Top and Bot plate VM stress: FEMAP won't do the max. For this you need to select the "Double-sided Planar Contour", which WILL do the max operation

2) selecting both end A AND end B max combined stress: again FEMAP will not do the max operation, it will only display the first one.

AP

 

[rb1957]

most FEA will calculate beam stresses, at the extreme edges, at the centroid. but maybe you can't plot with plate stresses.

else hand calc ...

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