Tutorial 3:

Plane Beam/Frame Problems

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS AND
DESIGN
Nam-Ho Kim Nam Ho Kim
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CLAMPED-CLAMPED BEAM
E = 100 MPa E = 100 MPa,
Circular section with r = 20mm
Pl t bendin m ment and shear f rce dia rams Plot bending moment and shear force diagrams
y
x
1 2
1m
3
1m
F
2
=240 N
1 m 1 m
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CLAMPED-CLAMPED BEAM
Parts Parts
2D Planar, Deformable, Wire, App Size = 2
Create lines: (-1 0) (0 0) (1 0) Create lines: ( 1, 0), (0, 0), (1, 0)
Materials
Mechanical Elasticity Elastic Mechanical, Elasticity, Elastic
Youngs modulus = 100E6, Poissons ratio = 0.3
Profiles Profiles
Circular, r = 0.02
Sections Sections
Beam
Assign section to the part
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Assign section to the part
Bean Orientation
Beam cross section needs orientation Beam cross section needs orientation
t is tangential direction (first node second node)
F r plane beam n is (0 0 1) For plane beam, n
1
is (0, 0, -1)
Properties, Assign beam orientation
(0 0 1) n
1
= (0, 0, -1)
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Assembly Instance Assembly, Instance
Steps
Linear perturbation Static Linear perturbation, Static
Field output request
Check SF Section forces and moments Check SF, Section forces and moments
BCs
Initial Encastre (clamped) Initial, Encastre (clamped)
Loads
Mechanical Pressure select upward Uniform 30 Mechanical, Pressure, select upward, Uniform, 30
Mesh
Element type Cubic polynomial (B23)
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Element type, Cubic polynomial (B23)
Global element size = 0.2
CLAMPED-CLAMPED BEAM
Analysis Create Job Data Check Submit Analysis, Create Job, Data Check, Submit
Results
Def rmed pl t Stress pl ts Deformed plot, Stress plots
Field output, Section points, Top or Bottom
Animation Save AVI file Animation, Save AVI file
Paths, Node list
XYD h X V l S ID XYData, path, X Values = Sequence ID
Field output, SM1
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