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Thanks for your help. The tailrace gate will be exposed to the weather 99 percent of the time, in a climate with a temp. ranging from approx. -25 to +25 celsius (with a considerable amount of salt spray). The other 1 percent the gate will be submerged in the north atlantic ocean. Appreciate...

Does mild steel and stainless react negatively? Application - using stainless bolts to fasten a neoprene seal to a mild steel tailrace gate.

Thanks. I had made a little progress since the initial email and was able to view the results. I was having trouble with the members and nodes of the DXF, however that problem was remedied and I was able to view results. Thanks for your help. When you model a plate or a shell you still have...

Thanks cdsigmon, must appreciated. Attached is the file. I have been playing around with some different custom sections for each member… so the model will closely resemble the 2 inch thick plates...

Thanks for the reply, SFrame is the software. It is mainly used for building design and I have never actually used it to model anything other than beams, columns and trusses. So, it may not be a suitable program for this problem. I wasn't really descriptive enough... the plate is actual shaped...

Good Day, I set up a simple model of a 2 inch thick plate to perform a FE stress analysis in SFrame. One end of the plate is fixed and there has a tension load of 36kips on the other... material properties were assigned (steel) and quadrilateral elements meshed. The programe runs without any...