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Dear Everyone, I am new to the concept of material science. I tried to simulate a solidification process of 7079 alluminium alloy using Scheil-Gulliver method in Matcalc. However, I noticed that...
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I have created a solid mesh of a flange model in hypermesh. However, only one of the mesh quality criteria is not satisfied. The max angle of some hexahendral elements is slightly higher than 135°...
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I have a long cylindrical shell with dimensions length = 20 m , radius = 2 m and thickness = 3 cm. I want to do a geometric non-linear buckling analysis in Abaqus with no imperfections included....
01 January 1970 5,721 3 View
Dear all, I wanted to simulate flanges on a wind turbine tower. For this porpuse two different models were created. 1) Using tie constraints. Each segment (3 in total, so 2 connections) has a...
01 January 1970 8,581 2 View
I simulated a cylinder of length 75 and radius 2 in Abaqus using shell elements (S4R) for the cylindrical shell and solid elements (C3D10) for flanges. The connection between flanges and cylinder...
01 January 1970 7,713 14 View
I want to simulate a wind turbine's tower model. The cylindrical part constructed using shell elements (S4R) and the flanges using solid elements(C3D10).Internal stiffneres also included using...
01 January 1970 7,663 2 View
Dear all, I want to connect the surfaces of two shell structures (shell rings). For that purpose I was thinking tie constraints. However I am not sure how to do it properly. For example how should...
01 January 1970 3,789 5 View
Dear all, I want to connect two parts in abaqus. One is a cylindrical shell and the other is a solid deformable ring. The ring will act as a stiffener for the cylindrical shell. My question is...
01 January 1970 188 5 View
Dear all Abaqus users, I want to connect a cylindrical shell with a solid ring, where the ring simulates the flange. For this purpose I was thinking to the shell-to-solid constraint. However, some...
01 January 1970 204 3 View
Dear all, I want to use ring stiffeners in order to increase bending resistance of a cylinder. The rings has outer diameter R1 = 2 and inner diammeter R2 = 1.85. Their thickness is 0.12 . They...
01 January 1970 5,045 3 View
Dear all, Is a good strategy to simulate thick structures using shell elements instead of solid ones. For example I have a cylinder consisting of 3 parts. The parts are connected with flanges with...
01 January 1970 3,711 3 View
Dear all , I have a one fixed-end cylinder under bending force simulated in Abaqus. I run a geometric non-linear analysis and now I want to find the curvature at some specific point across the...
01 January 1970 4,708 4 View
Dear all, I am working on a buckling problem of a long cylindrical shell under bending moment. One end is fixed and the other one is free to move. A bending moment is acting on free end. I...
01 January 1970 3,346 5 View
I am trying to do a post-buckling analysis of a cylinder under bending load usig riks method in abaqus. As imperfection i used only the critical buckling mode from linear buckling analysis.The...
01 January 1970 6,074 3 View
I am studying the behaviour of cylindrical shells under bending loads. I simulated in Abaqus a straight cylinder of length = 100 , radius = 2 and thickness =0.05 . S4R elements are used. The...
01 January 1970 4,271 4 View
I simulated the same problem using both wire beam and shell elements. The model is a cylinder of length = 100 , thickness = 0.05 and radius = 2. One end is fixed and the other is free. A...
01 January 1970 3,812 3 View
I want to use shell elements in Abaqus in order to formulate a cylindrical shell under compression. However, I am stuck a little bit in small and finite strain part. Does this mean that elements...
01 January 1970 4,039 2 View
I am trying to simulate the buckling behaviour of a very long beam with a pipe cross-section in Abaqus.One end is fixed and the other is free.A bending force is applied on the free end. By doing a...
01 January 1970 3,943 6 View
I want to create a beam(3d wire) in abaqus with a conical cross-section and different thickness. However in cross-section modulus there is no something like that. How could I do that? Please give...
01 January 1970 7,151 3 View
I'm modeling a cylindrical shell of L=3 m , thickness=2cm and R=20cm with left end fixed and a bending force on the other free end. I want to study where buckling occurs. As a first step I want to...
01 January 1970 2,936 3 View
