Has anybody had any experience using contact elements? If so, what property values do you set in this window from FEMAP where you have to define the connection property. If you click on the NEi Nastran tab in the define connection property window there are cells which ask you about "Max...
I know when I analyzed manhole covers for the company I work for. I would run my FEA with large deflection turned off. If my resulting maximum deflection in the center of the cover was greater than thickness of the cover, then I would run a non-linear static FEA.
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I work in a structural engineering company. I have created various models in FEMAP using plate elements and solid elements. In some of my models, I used degree of freedom springs to model bolts, in other models I used beam elements. Which way would be more accurate? To me it would...
