Using glued to avoid stress concentration with plate elements

[davidvp]

Hi,

In a static lineal study with plate elements model use to appear high stresses in 90º connections. I wonder if use glued contact in this regions is a good way to avoid them in order to take a pic without singularities.
I would to know if the fist model (intersect plates) would corresponds with the second model (use glued), or if there is other way better way to do this.

Thanks

 

[Edoardo Sapignoli]

Can you post the images of first model and second model so we have more details to verify the equivalence?

 

[SWComposites]

glued connection should give the same results. and cripe, really? if the "pretty pictures" can't have the hot spots then just remove those elements from the output set. or change the color scale so that the hot spots are hidden, or just add a note "ignore the stresses at the 90 degree corners".

 

[rb1957]

ah SWC ... warms the cockles of my heart ! (one guy someplace I worked did that ... "I don't believe that result ... presto, gone !" ... hummm ...)