non evenly distributed load on solid?
non evenly distributed load on solid?
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I have this solid model of a wing using solid elements and I would like to apply a linear distributed load and eventually a non linear load extending from root to the tip of the wing. I have successfully applied an evenly distributed load from the root to the tip. I simply selected Model-->Load-->On Surface. The root is fixed and the tip is free to translate and rotate. How would I go about doing this?





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2) apply load to the elements meshed onto the surface, constant pressure or linear varying ... i don't think there's much point in doing anything else on an element, 'cause i think that's pretty much all the elements are coded for.
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Ideally, you would create a loads model of axial and shear elements, then create detailed models only of the areas of interest.
Somewhere around here I have good guide for modeling aircraft structure. I'll see if I can dig it up.
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i think any "real" wing would need skins to take the bending stresses, maybe Al sheet, maybe some plies of Glass fiber. the body of the wing could be some sort of solid (foam?) but most wings use the internal volume.
i think you can extract the surfaces from your solid, mesh them with plate elements (thickness sized to suit the stresses), then project this mesh onto the solid to mesh the solid (if that's the way you want to go.
as noted above, a solid wing is very unusual !
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rb1957, you wouldn't happen to be a graduate of Auburn University, would you?
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The download worked fine for me.
Regards
Thomas
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