Here an example. Thermal Transient with varing negative mass flow.
Result shows an alternating MF. That do not happen when the mass flow is positive. (constant or varing). I think this is a ccx problem because frd is showing the alternating value to…
Hello Victor,
I'm considering including an amplitude for the mass flow. First thing I have done is to request the actual value with *NODE FILE MF and I have found that the one defined as negative (water in the attached file) is showing and alternat…
I have written the surfaces by hand and the result now matches very well with the theoretical expected result. The small deviation is due to the idealization of zero tube wall thickness used by the formulas. I have had to use a minimum thickness to …
@Fammal
Probably too late but recall to request for CDIS and CSTR to see contact results.
Mecway doesn't add them automatically as it's supposed you are not unsing contact in Axy 2D.
@JohnM
If you enforce a maximum time increment your BC will be…
I try and keep the ways to do things to a minimum :-)
I agree but I thought it's good to know users can get much more if they explore.
Mecway has clearly prioritized reliability over the number of functions. This makes it a more robust program…
HI,
Assuming the are no external forces on the bases, aren't beam forces at the edges near external bounding conditions same as reactions?
Axial could be debatable as it may not be strictly vertical reaction force if the columns are hinged but she…
Hard pressure-overclosure behavior is internally reduced to linear pressure-overclosure behavior. That's probably why Victor didn't implement Hard. With linear you cover hard.
Hard uses default values that sometimes fail, specially if your contat n…
That is not a good reference for comparision unless the thickness is very very small so bending stress doesn't have any role.
If you want to test it you better compare using some Catenary example.
Hi Sarvesh.
There were some issues reported for this model + Offset.
https://calculix.discourse.group/t/buckle-step-with-prescribed-displacements/1404/7
Thanks both, knowing others have solve the problem is encouraging. ¿Are you solving with ccx / mecway solely or do you get some support from other FEA tools?
Thanks both,
This model came up in a different Forum. I found it a good opportunity to try it and see which could be the drawbacks.
I have experience with Liquid and Gas storage, but powder /solids storage are a completely different world although …
From Mecway Manual:
"On a shell element, the face is offset from the midsurface by half the element thickness so a traction applied to the face generates moments at the nodes as well as forces.
If you don’t want these moments, apply it to the eleme…
Thanks Victor.
I solved the problem properly with ccx nonlinear. It solves fine except for a slightly large bending moment at point A.
My surprise was with Openradioss. I changed some parameters (Density ,K, F) to see if there was some automatic m…
This is the truss system with ccx and only compresion beams in the diagonals.
It is nonlinear (I think it must be nonlinear for this kind of material)
Final results are:
(+ = tension)
Side in Tension. Final Tension 8.999927E+01 N
Side in Compresi…
Hi,
Isn't tension and only compression materials nonlinear behaviors?.
Is there a reason why the problem is not approach with ccx solver?
Is it because there is not such a variety of beam sections.?
Yep, It is ccx. I have finally plot the integration points at the undeformed geometry as reference and interpolated the values known their coordiantes.
Thanks
HI Victor,
I'm comparing the SXZ value at the integration point with the SXZ value from the interpolation tool and they are different. ¿Should I assume the interpolation tool is made from the nodal values?.
In case it is, ¿Would this be hard to do …
Take a look at he Gmsh manual.
https://gmsh.info/dev/doc/texinfo/gmsh.pdf
Prepomax has implement most of Gmsh commands in a really amazing way. It is even more friendly than the Gmsh GUI itself.
Thanks Victor,
I will try that. There is a shell expansion in between so i will have to see how to manage that as new nodes are also created. I also found that unused nodes don’t show in the solution.
Sorry, Another question related to this.
My main problem is that I'm interested in certain values at the integration points but only those close to a specific face.
From the dat file it is puzzling to extract which are the int.points of interest.
…
Gmsh has an option to mesh only the edges with nodes. It could provide a fast and light "node-mesh" just for reference. If Stp is too heavy to import all at once you could also try to import by parts (even separate files) before merging everything. …
Hello,
Just curiosity, what is the purpose of this device?. It does not appear to be used to attach anything other than itself to a tube.
Normally one of the halves is prepared to be fixed but in this case it does not appear to have any rail or …