I want to know about users of COSMO
I want to know about users of COSMO
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I want to know about users of COSMO
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RE: I want to know about users of COSMO
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RE: I want to know about users of COSMO
RE: I want to know about users of COSMO
RE: I want to know about users of COSMO
1. Poor Technical support
2. Convergence difficulties with non-linear contact
3. Difficult if not impossible geometry manipulation after CAD geometry import.
It's my view that FEA packages that imbedded within CAD packages are not very useful. At this time you cannot create FEA model with multiple element types, i.e. shell and solids. It's either all shells or all solids. Also, they have no beam capability. They only work well for small number of applications -- small widgets and short blocky models. And finally which is most scarey of all as Swertel says, "you can always get answers".
RE: I want to know about users of COSMO
I agree with swertel, when it does work it's so easy a monkey could use and I'm not sure I would trust a monkey with FEA.
By the way, you said "COSMOS/M for Pro/E". I just assumed you really meant DesignStar. That's the package that you can import a geometry from a solid modeler like Pro/E and it will automatically mesh it and associate nodes with surfaces, edges, etc. You can import geometry into COSMOS/M but generating the model is much more "manual" than DesignStar.
RE: I want to know about users of COSMO
Does this stuff you are talking about(Cosmos/Abaqus/I-deas whatsoever) help someone model cables. I have to master modelling cable supported roofs.
Most of the time we have rods(slender) attached to both the top and bottom of a roof. And wind is such that some rods get in tension some in compression. Modelling them is a mess.
Someone told me I will have to do some non-linear analysis.
Any comment is highly welcome
Regs
IJR
RE: I want to know about users of COSMO
A great refresher is Cable Supported Structures by Max Irvine.
There are also more general programs that will handle non-linear analysis of cables that you should investigate before heading to one of these monster programs. Check out the usual suspects: SAP2000, GTSTRDL, etc.
RE: I want to know about users of COSMO
Regs
IJr