!!! FEA ST4: STABILITY ANALYSIS OF A CYLINDRICAL SHELL ! Created by Tamas Poloskei, 2017. February 28. !! Units: [N],[Nmm],[N/mm^2=MPa],[N/mm] !! Define constant parameters D = 100 H = 150 T = 1 ELAST = 210E3 NU = 0.3 !! SETUP: element types, materials, sections KEYW,PR_STRUC,1 ! Preferences / Structural /PREP7 ET,1,SHELL181 MPTEMP,1,0 MPDATA,EX,1,,ELAST MPDATA,PRXY,1,,NU /RGB,INDEX,100,100,100,0 /RGB,INDEX,0,0,0,15 ! thickness definition SECT,1,SHELL SECDATA, T,1,0.0,3 SECOFFSET,MID SECCONTROL ! Create keypoints K,1,0,0,0 K,2,0,0,H ! Create circle CIRCLE,1,D/2,,,360,4 ! Create line to be swept along L,1,2 ! Extrude the lines of the circle ADRAG,1,2,3,4,,,5 ! Set the number of elements on each line LESIZE,1,,,10 LESIZE,2,,,10 LESIZE,3,,,10 LESIZE,4,,,10 LESIZE,6,,,10 LESIZE,9,,,10 LESIZE,11,,,10 LESIZE,13,,,10 LESIZE,7,,,20 LESIZE,8,,,20 LESIZE,10,,,20 LESIZE,12,,,20 ! Mesh areas as mapped MSHKEY,1 AMESH,ALL ! Activate cylindrical coordinate system CSYS,1 ! Before element orientation /PSYMB,ESYS,1 GPLOT ! Rotate every elements local coordinatesystem NROTAT,ALL GPLOT ! Kinematic constraints ! Bottom edge *DO, III, 1, 4 DL,III, ,UX,0 DL,III, ,UY,0 DL,III, ,UZ,0 *ENDDO ! Uncomment the next lines to apply the b) exercise's constraints ! DL,6, ,UX,0 ! DL,6, ,UY,0 ! DL,6, ,UY,0 ! *DO, III, 9, 13, 2 ! DL,III, ,UX,0 ! DL,III, ,UY,0 ! DL,III, ,UY,0 ! *ENDDO ! ! Apply loads SFA,ALL,1,PRES,-1 FINISH ! Activate prestress effects /SOL PSTRES,1 /STATUS,SOLU SOLVE FINISH ! eigen buckling /SOL ANTYPE,1 ! Extract four modes BUCOPT,LANB,4,0,0,CENTER MXPAND,4,0,0,0,0.001, /STATUS,SOLU SOLVE /POST1 ! Save eigenshapes into files SET,FIRST PLNSOL, U,SUM, 2,1.0 /IMAGE,SAVE,eigenshape_1,bmp SET,NEXT PLNSOL, U,SUM, 2,1.0 /IMAGE,SAVE,eigenshape_2,bmp SET,NEXT PLNSOL, U,SUM, 2,1.0 /IMAGE,SAVE,eigenshape_3,bmp SET,NEXT PLNSOL, U,SUM, 2,1.0 /IMAGE,SAVE,eigenshape_4,bmp