best practice for modeling plate.
Verfasst: Mi 17. Apr 2013, 08:22
Hello z88 team,
I'm interested in the deflection in thin plate caused by a force.
I first designed a beam 1000x100x25 and exported as a step file and meshed this with netgen.
this model compared with classical hand calculations is not deflecting enough.
a finer mesh gives more deflection however stil does not reach the deflection calculated classical.
as a second option i made a z88i file with dimensions 1000x100x25.
I can mesh this with element type 1. all the other ones give a crash just after pressing button "create mesh" and gives the error message "cannot read structure data"
with elemend type 1 i tried diffrent mesh sizing giving results all over the scale, some to much some to little deflection.
leaving me puzzled ..
what is the best practice for modelling this plate and any other plate in general?
regards Frans
I'm interested in the deflection in thin plate caused by a force.
I first designed a beam 1000x100x25 and exported as a step file and meshed this with netgen.
this model compared with classical hand calculations is not deflecting enough.
a finer mesh gives more deflection however stil does not reach the deflection calculated classical.
as a second option i made a z88i file with dimensions 1000x100x25.
I can mesh this with element type 1. all the other ones give a crash just after pressing button "create mesh" and gives the error message "cannot read structure data"
with elemend type 1 i tried diffrent mesh sizing giving results all over the scale, some to much some to little deflection.
leaving me puzzled ..
what is the best practice for modelling this plate and any other plate in general?
regards Frans