Femap with Nei Nastran rivet forces
Femap with Nei Nastran rivet forces
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Hi all.
Can you aerospace types (or others) remind me how you typically extract shear flows for sizing skin to frame member connections? I have not modeled discrete fasteners, but just used glued contact in my FEA. What is the usual method with "older" FE approaches, i.e. merged shell elements, etc?
tg
Can you aerospace types (or others) remind me how you typically extract shear flows for sizing skin to frame member connections? I have not modeled discrete fasteners, but just used glued contact in my FEA. What is the usual method with "older" FE approaches, i.e. merged shell elements, etc?
tg





RE: Femap with Nei Nastran rivet forces
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RE: Femap with Nei Nastran rivet forces
I have done the same many times - however, do you take the total shear over all the elements in a line and divide by total length (giving average shear flow) or is there another approach?
tg
RE: Femap with Nei Nastran rivet forces
but summing different element contributions is reasonable for ultimate static design, or you might consider the peak load applied to a representative number of fasteners.
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RE: Femap with Nei Nastran rivet forces
Is there a standard or guide that helps define "representative number of fasteners"?
tg
RE: Femap with Nei Nastran rivet forces
if you've got a lot of skin panel shear, and are splicing the skin panel, how many rivets would fit within the element ?
you could average over like a frame pitch.
if there's one shear spike, does it look reasonable to smear over three rivets ?
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