Hi again, rb1957: I must not have explained it well, but the set of constraints I applied are exactly as you suggested. Sorry about the confusion!
As for the "angled beams", I have four L-beams. They start near the corners of the bottom plate and are angled so that they are closer to the center...
Wow! Thanks for all the quick feedback on this. A few clarifications:
@msquared48: I'm sorry, I misspoke. I should have said that a uniform displacement of 0 was applied to the bottom plate in the normal direction. So, two plates, held apart by 4 angled beams, and I am trying to push the two...
Hi everyone!
I'm working on a buckling problem (not my personal area of expertise) and I wanted to pick your collective brains on the topic of failure and Finite Element analysis.
So, we have two metallic plates, held apart by four angled L-beams. Everything is modeled as shells. (Abaqus S4R5...
