I am looking for a way to effectively model bearings using MSC.Visual Nastran. We are mostly interested in stiffness models, but the way we have been doing it is not giving accurate results (force balancing is off). If anyone has a good way of modeling bearings it would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks for the reply. I did go through and make some dummy materials changing only one value (to 1) and leaving all the others at zero. What I found was that the five lines of code after elasticity, shear and poisson's were the upper diagonal of a symmetrical stiffness matrix for a 3D case that...
I am looking for information regarding the format material.esp files. I am creating a new library and want to be able to write it in a notepad and then read it into Nastran for Windows. I have looked at the .esp file and have been able to decipher the majority of the values (particularly for...
