Hello All, Please excuse me posting this in two locations butI need some immediate help and I can't get a call back from SW. Iam one year new to Solidworks and I have been throught the ups anddowns of learning the software. If some one could help me on this Iwould be ecstatic.
I think there is a huge problem with Beam and Shell/SolidConnections. I have never been able to produce results in beams ina mixed mesh when the cross-sectional face of the beam is connectedto a face of a solid or surface. I created a simple assembly toillustrate my problem.
I know I can fix one node of the beam and pull on the other. For myapplication I need to fix one joint of the beam and apply force tothe plate it is connected to.
1. I have a square base plate....
2. I have a C4 x 5.4 Channel mated to the surface of the base plate
3. I created a connection between the beam and the surface of thebase plate.
4. I fixed the beam at the top beam joint and applied a 1000 lbload to the base plate
5. The Cross Section of c4 x 5.4 is 1.59in2. So the max axialstress (557 psi) is wrong for starters (stress = 1000 / 1.59 = 629psi).But the rest of the beam has 0 psi ofaxial stress along the beam. This is clearly an error - THeaxial stress should be uniform throughout (no gravity applied). Ihave seen this a hundred times before on my models - and I havebeen forced to find some other way to go about it - but it isreally cumbersome and does not give me a lot of confidence in thesoftware.
6. Has there been any updates on connecting beam face crosssections to faces or surfaces?
Thanks in advance, Justin
SolidworksSimulation
I think there is a huge problem with Beam and Shell/SolidConnections. I have never been able to produce results in beams ina mixed mesh when the cross-sectional face of the beam is connectedto a face of a solid or surface. I created a simple assembly toillustrate my problem.
I know I can fix one node of the beam and pull on the other. For myapplication I need to fix one joint of the beam and apply force tothe plate it is connected to.
1. I have a square base plate....
2. I have a C4 x 5.4 Channel mated to the surface of the base plate
3. I created a connection between the beam and the surface of thebase plate.
4. I fixed the beam at the top beam joint and applied a 1000 lbload to the base plate
5. The Cross Section of c4 x 5.4 is 1.59in2. So the max axialstress (557 psi) is wrong for starters (stress = 1000 / 1.59 = 629psi).But the rest of the beam has 0 psi ofaxial stress along the beam. This is clearly an error - THeaxial stress should be uniform throughout (no gravity applied). Ihave seen this a hundred times before on my models - and I havebeen forced to find some other way to go about it - but it isreally cumbersome and does not give me a lot of confidence in thesoftware.
6. Has there been any updates on connecting beam face crosssections to faces or surfaces?
Thanks in advance, Justin
SolidworksSimulation
