Articles tagged with "FEA"

1. FEA with Calculix (3)

   This is the third installment of a series of articles about how to analyze sandwich structures with FEA.

   It might be a good idea to read part 1 and part 2 first.

   In this part we will look at a simplified simulation of a three-point bending test of a sandwich panel.

2. 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.

3. FEA with Calculix (1)

   This is the first part of a series of articles where I hope to show how to analyze deflection and stress in structures using the free CalculiX software. I’m using version 2.17. The focus will be on sandwich structures because that is the area in which I’m most interested. Compared to parts consisting out of a single material this is a bit more tricky as we will see in this article. The main reason for using finite element analysis (“FEA”) in general is that it allows for complete analysis of problems where no integral solution exists.

   Additionally, some of the assumptions used in Euler–Bernoulli beam theory for analyzing deformation and stresses in beams and plates do not hold for sandwiches.