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Linear Static Simple Plate
Linear Static Simple Plate
Tutorial 6
Open FEMAP. From the FEMAP Main Menu select Geometry. Next, choose Surface and then Corners from the menus.
In the Locate Enter First Corner of Surface dialog box verify that the X, Y, and Z fields contain zeros. Choose OK.
Another dialog box will appear requesting the second corner of the surface. Enter the following coordinates for the second corner: Locate Enter Second Corner of Surface: enter: For the third and fourth corners: Locate Enter Third Corner of Surface: enter: Locate Enter Fourth Corner of Surface: enter: X= 10 Y= 2 Z= 0 Then, click OK. Then, click OK. X= 10 Y= 0 Z= 0 Then, click OK.
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The surface you have drawn will appear off to the right side of your workspace. Since you will not draw any other surfaces, click Cancel in the Locate Enter First Corner of Surface dialog box. To center the image of the surface in your workspace, select View on the FEMAP Main Menu, then from the menus, choose Autoscale and then Visible. You should have a surface in the workspace that looks like this:
Tutorial 7
The rectangles that appear in the surface are not the elements. The elements will be defined in a later section.
In the Define Isotropic Material dialog box enter the following values into their respective fields: ID 100 Title Aluminum Youngs Modulus, E 1e7 Poissons Ratio nu 0.3 Mass Density 0.1
Tutorial 8
Select OK. The Define Isotropic Material dialog box will appear again expecting you to enter another material. Since there is only one material in this model, choose Cancel to exit the next material definition.
In the Define Property PLATE Element Type dialog box click the Elem/Property Type button.
The Element / Property Type dialog box appears. Select Plate and verify that all other settings are the same as illustrated.
Tutorial 9
This last step will instruct NE/Nastran to use CQUAD4 quadrilateral plate or shell elements with four nodes (grid points), one in each corner. Select OK. In the Define Property PLATE Element Type dialog box, fill the following values into their respective fields: ID 10 Title Aluminum Plate Thickness, Tavg or T1 0.1 Click the down arrow in the Material box and select 100..Aluminum.
Select OK. The Define Property PLATE Element Type dialog box will re-appear. Click Cancel because there are no further element types to define.
Tutorial 10
In the first part of this step, you will divide the model into ten elements along its long axis and four elements along its short axis. The thickness of the plate requires only one element when using shell elements. From the FEMAP Main Menu select Mesh then choose Mesh Control and Size Along Curve.
The Entity Selection Select Curve(s) to Set Mesh Size dialog box appears. With your mouse, point to the top edge of the surface in the workspace and left click (see figure below). Do the same with the bottom edge.
Select OK. The Mesh Size Along Curves dialog box appears. In the Mesh Size box enter 10 for the Number of Elements. The Mesh Size Along Curves dialog box should appear as illustrated.
Tutorial 11
Select OK. The Entity Selection Select Curve(s) to Set Mesh Size dialog box appears again. Now, select the left edge and click (see figure below). Then, select the right edge and click.
Click OK. In the Mesh Size Along Curves dialog box, enter 4 for the Number of Elements.
Select OK in the Mesh Size Along Curves dialog box. Select Cancel in the Entity Selection Select Curve(s) to Set Mesh Size dialog box. From the FEMAP Main Menu select Mesh then choose Geometry and Surface.
Tutorial 12
The Entity Selection Select Surfaces to Mesh dialog box appears. With your mouse, point to and left click the surface of the model (point anywhere in the rectangle).
Select OK in the Entity Selection Select Surfaces to Mesh dialog box. The Automesh Surfaces dialog box appears. Click the down arrow in the Property box and select 10..Aluminum Plate.
Tutorial 13
The Create or Activate Constraint Set dialog box appears. In the Title field type: Fixed Edge.
Select OK. The Entity Selection Enter Curve(s) to Select dialog box appears. With your mouse, point to and click the left side edge of the model.
Tutorial 14
If the entries are the same as in this illustration, select OK. When the Entity Selection Enter Curve(s) to Select dialog box opens, select Cancel. The constraint has now been applied. Your model should now appear like this:
The small triangles with the letter F below them signify that the edge is fixed.
Tutorial 15
Enter 60 Pounds in the Title field of the Create or Activate Load Set dialog box.
Select OK. The Entity Selection Enter Curve(s) to Select dialog box appears. With your mouse point to and click on the right side edge of the model.
Select OK. When the Create Loads on Curves dialog box opens, select Force and enter the value of 60 in the FY box. (Note that the force is positive since it is acting in the positive Ydirection.)
Tutorial 16
Select OK. The Entity Selection Enter Curve(s) to Select dialog box appears again. Select Cancel. The load is now applied. Your model should now appear like this:
Note the two load arrows on the right edge. To save your file select File from the FEMAP Main Menu and then choose Save As. Enter the file name, Example Problem 1, navigate to your working directory, and click Save.
Tutorial 17
When the Write Model To Nastran dialog box opens, type the file name Example Problem 1.
Select OK in the NASTRAN Analysis Control dialog box. The NE/Nastran Editor opens and analysis data from its current operation scrolls in the Analysis view. When the analysis is complete, the NE/Nastran Editor displays the Errors/Warnings view, and the NE/Nastran Termination Status dialog box appears telling you that the analysis is complete with no errors or warnings. (Do not click the Continue button yet.)
Tutorial 18
Next, you will interrogate the results using the NE/Nastran Editor (in the next section), and then you will post-process the results with FEMAP (in the section after next).
Tutorial 19
The Output View has the listing of the Example Problem 1.OUT file that is written by NE/Nastran when the analysis is complete. This file contains all of the analysis results in an ASCII format. To the left of the Editor View is the Options View. Here the Model Initialization File settings can be viewed or modified. These settings allow you to configure NE/Nastran. The window on the bottom is the Messages Window. The messages displayed here come from the NE/Nastran Editor and solver. When you are finished exploring the NE/Nastran Editor, click Continue in the NE/Nastran Termination Status dialog box. NE/Nastran will write the results to FEMAP, close the Editor, and return control to FEMAP.
NE/NASTRAN VERSION 8.1 09:30 SERIAL NUMBER: NIW-I586-01810-XXXX 11/17/01
MODULE SEQUENCE FOR SOLUTION: LINEAR STATIC MAXIMUM MAXIMUM MAXIMUM MAXIMUM QUAD QUAD QUAD QUAD ELEMENT ELEMENT ELEMENT ELEMENT ASPECT RATIO SKEW ANGLE TAPER RATIO WARPING ANGLE = = = = 2.00 ON ELEMENT 0.00 DEGREES ON ELEMENT 0.00 ON ELEMENT 0.00 DEGREES ON ELEMENT 40 40 40 40
TOTAL MASS = 2.000000E-01 MAXIMUM STIFFNESS MATRIX DIAGONAL = MINIMUM STIFFNESS MATRIX DIAGONAL = 3.0568E+06 1.9231E+01 AT GRID 55 COMPONENT 2 AT GRID 15 COMPONENT 6
NUMBER OF NEGATIVE TERMS ON FACTOR DIAGONAL = 0 MAXIMUM MATRIX FACTOR DIAGONAL RATIO = 6.047E+03 AT GRID 44 COMPONENT 3 FACTORED SPARSE MATRIX SIZE = ADDITIONAL MEMORY ALLOCATED = MAXIMUM APPLIED FORCE MAGNITUDE = MAXIMUM APPLIED MOMENT MAGNITUDE = 9356 WORDS 74002 WORDS 1.500000E+01 0.000000E+00 0.1 MEGABYTES 0.6 MEGABYTES AT GRID 14 AT GRID 55 2.085721E+02 0.000000E+00 AT GRID 28 AT GRID 55
MAXIMUM SINGLE POINT CONSTRAINT FORCE MAGNITUDE = MAXIMUM SINGLE POINT CONSTRAINT MOMENT MAGNITUDE = MAXIMUM DISPLACEMENT MAGNITUDE = MAXIMUM ROTATION MAGNITUDE = EPSILON = STRAIN ENERGY = MAXIMUM MAXIMUM MAXIMUM MINIMUM QUAD QUAD QUAD QUAD 9.488360E-13 9.171863E-01 PRINCIPAL STRESS SHEAR STRESS VON MISES STRESS PRINCIPAL STRESS 3.090763E-02 0.000000E+00
AT GRID 15 AT GRID 55
AT AT AT AT
1 32 31 31
Tutorial 20
Next click the Set Levels button. In the Contour/Criteria Levels dialog box enter the following six numbers in the six fields of the Colors box. Your dialog box should look like the one below. 4 16398 24 16399 120 16484
Tutorial 21
These numbers set the color levels to range from blue for low values of the contours to red for high values. So the sequence of colors is then blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Click OK in the Contour/Criteria Levels dialog box and again in the View Options box. Next, you will prepare the contour plots of the plate. From the FEMAP Main Menu, select View then choose Select.
The View Select dialog box appears. Click the Quick Hidden Line radio button in the Model Style box. Click the Deform radio button in the Deformed Style box. This will show the deformation of the model in the contour plot. Click the Contour radio button in the Contour Style box. This will activate the color contour plot. Verify that all other selections are as illustrated.
Click the Deformed and Contour Data button. The Select PostProcessing Data dialog box opens. The Deformation setting within the Output Vectors box should be 1..TOTAL TRANSLATION. This will plot the deformation of the plate using the total translation calculated in the analysis. For the Contour setting, select 7420..SHELL NORMAL-X1. This is the normal stress in the x-direction. The last number 1 signifies that the stresses are computed on the bottom (negative z axis) side of the shell elements. Because of the symmetry of the model, this is the same as the center and topside of the plate. The maximum and minimum values listed are for the element centroid. Element corner data is included by default and is used by FEMAP to plot the stresses more accurately.
Tutorial 22
Select OK. The View Select dialog box reappears. Select OK again. The colored contour plot should appear.
The color contours show a peak stress of 8713 psi in the bottom of the plate near the fixed support. The plates total deformation is shown exaggerated.
Tutorial 23
FEMAP allows you to interrogate the contour plot directly, by pointing with your mouse. To do this, click on the Entity Query button in the FEMAP frame on the extreme bottom right of your display.
From the menu, select Node. Now position your mouse over the bottom right corner of the model of the plate. After a brief pause, data for the highlighted node will appear.
Note that the deformation of the plate in the y-direction (T2 for a Cartesian coordinate system) is 0.0306 inch at this node. To see a color contour plot of the shear stress, select View from the FEMAP Main Menu, then choose Select. As before, the View Select dialog box appears. Click the Deformed and Contour Data button. The Select PostProcessing Data dialog box appears again. Change the Contour setting to 7423..SHELL SHEAR-XY1. This output vector contains the element shear stresses for the bottom side.
Tutorial 24
Select OK. The View Select dialog box reappears. Select OK again. The colored contour plot should appear with shear stresses. The maximum value of the shear stress (436 psi) occurs along the neutral axis, a short distance from the fixed support.
x =
where, Mx
M xc I
is the bending moment at the y-z section containing the point (x,y,z) and is computed by the product (60 lbf x 10 in) of the load with the distance, in the x-direction, from the point (x,y,z) to the location of the load, is the distance in the y-direction from the neutral axis to the point (x,y,z),
Tutorial 25
is the second moment of the plane area about the neutral axis, and for a rectangular cross section, is computed from,
I= where, d b
db 3 12
is the thickness of the plate (0.1 Inch) is the height of the plate (2 inches).
For this beam, I = 0.06667 in4. The normal stress in the x-direction at the point, (x,y,z) = (0,0,0) is:
x =
= 9000 psi
The result computed by NE/Nastran at this point is 8713 psi, or only 3.2% below the theoretical result. The deflection of the beam, in the y-direction, at the free end is estimated by: y = where, P L E is the load applied at the end of the beam (60 lbf), is the distance from the fixed support to the point of the load (10 inches), is Youngs modulus (the modulus of elasticity) for the aluminum in this model (1.0 x 107 psi). PL3 3EI
The calculated deflection for this beam is y = 0.0300 inch. NE/Nastran computed 0.0306 inch, an error of only 2.0%. The value of the shear stress along the neutral axis is estimated by,
=
where,
3V 2A
V A
is the vertical shear force (60 lbf), is the cross sectional area of the beam (2.0 inches x 0.1 inch).
The computed shear stress on the neutral axis is 450 psi. NE/Nastran calculates 436 psi. The error is only -3.1%.
Tutorial 26
References:
1. W.C. Young, Roarks Formulas for Stress and Strain, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1989. 2. F.P. Beer and E.R. Johnston, Mechanics of Materials, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1981.
Tutorial 27
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