Beam to shells
Beam to shells
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Hi!
Just wondered if anyone knows what exactly happens in an FE program when one end of a beam element is joined to one node of a shell element and loaded? i.e. how will the JOINT between the two react? Will it be a pinned joint? Will it be encast? How will it affect the modal response?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
-- DREJ --
Just wondered if anyone knows what exactly happens in an FE program when one end of a beam element is joined to one node of a shell element and loaded? i.e. how will the JOINT between the two react? Will it be a pinned joint? Will it be encast? How will it affect the modal response?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
-- DREJ --





RE: Beam to shells
Assuming you have properly connected the dof (i.e. particularly the rotations) the response will be exactly the same as for any other connected nodes (regardless of whether loaded or not). It will NOT be pinned unless you have specified some of the joint dof to be pinned. All responses, including modal, should be OK assuming other modeling parameters are OK....
Hope this helps..
Ed.R.
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Regards,
Gerald
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