I've been using excel to run ESRD StressCheck through its COM API interface. Never had any issues with this, works just fine. I recently had a standalone "spinoff" program called StressCheck ToolBox installed, which has a similar COM API but with its own object library. The library is recognized...
I'm working with a thin (.040) rectangular panel in an airframe that easily buckles under shear and goes into diagonal tension. The panel is bolted down to frames/stringers on all four edges. I've got a 2D breakout Nastran model of the region detailed down to the fastener level with cbushes, and...
I have an aircraft longeron/frame splice with a mix of neat-fit and interference-fit fasteners. Typically, we calculate fastener stiffness for our FE models using the Grumman equations lap joints. However, looking at the theory and the test data the equations are based on, it doesn't look like...
Does anyone have a simple API script for turning on Node IDs (only Nodes) that they'd be willing to share? Complete novice to API, and having some trouble with the syntax. That would be a huge help. Many thanks
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I'm working a joint on an aircraft former flange that has some significant pull-off load, in addition to bearing/thru. I'd like to model this with a solid fem, using either NXCAE or stresscheck. I have detailed solid geometry of the former with the fastener hole modeled, and I'm...
I’m attempting to model a honeycomb core panel in Patran. The top surface is composite cloth, core in the middle, and the bottom is composite tape. I’ve heard this can be modeled using a 2D-3D-2D element sandwich approach, but this is for an internal loads model and I’d like to simplify things...
Running linear contact in Nastran, and thinking of things that need to be checked to verify that I've got good quality results. Obviously you should check the f06 to make sure it even converged, and then plot contact stresses to make sure load is coming through in a way that makes sense. Is...
In a Nastran deck, what controls whether or not the tables of max displacements and max spcforces gets written? I have two runs. One has these tables, the other doesn't. Trying to figure out why the second one doesn't
I have two parts (a skin and an aircraft former flange) overlapping with a row of fasteners along the length of the overlap modeled with CBUSH elements. The parts are modeled with CQUADs, and are slightly offset, such that the CBUSH elements have non-coincident nodes (though the CBUSH elements...
I have a 3D solid model of a truss, and I'm using Nastran to determine the normal mode frequencies. Nastran is giving me results for modes 1-10. The first 6 modes are effectively 0 Hz, but my understanding is that those correspond to rigid body translations and rotations and that 0 is the...
To simplify the situation I'm trying to model, imagine you have a cantilever beam with a propeller oriented perpendicular to the length of the beam at the free end. I want to ensure that the prop vibration won't excite any of the normal modes of the beam. If I run normal mode analysis on the...
I'm trying to wrap my head around what a reasonable constraint set would be for an accelerating body. I have a helicopter that will be accelerating upwards, and the acceleration load will be applied to the entire body. I'm struggling with the idea that I would just apply a typical 3-2-1...
