Weight of lining material in a FEA Model

[Bogdan Chivulescu]

Hi,

Any advice/suggestions on how to account for the weight of a lining material in a FEA of a rectangular shape tank?

The lining material is alumina oxide hex tile...

Thanks,
OnePoint

 

[FEA way]

Which software do you use ? There are often some special features that allow you to account for additional mass in FEA model. For example in Abaqus this is called nonstructural mass.

 

[Bogdan Chivulescu]

To FEA way,

The software I use is Simulation Mechanical (Autodesk).

 

[karachun]

Regardless of software you can modify density of tank material to account some nonstructural mass.