FEA with Calculix (2)
This is the second part in a series how to analyse sandwich structures with FEA. The first part is here. If you haven’t done so, you should probably read that first.
In that part we built and analyzed a sandwich where the core and skins shared
nodes.
We saw how that leads to incorrect stress distribution images because of nodal
averaging.
In this article, we’re going to fix that by using *TIE
constraints.