ANSYS

Results for Monocoque structure


Preference: Structural

Preprocessor:

Element type: SHELL99

Real Constants:
Mat no. theta thk
1.0000 0.0000 6.3670

Material Properties:
Linear  Elastic  Isotropic
Young’s modulus [E] = 70000 Poisson’s ratio [ν] = 0.33

Modeling:

 Creating key points:

Key point number = 1
X, Y, Z= 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000

Key point number = 2

X, Y, Z= 0.00000 1000.00 0.00000

Key point number = 3

X, Y, Z= 500.000 1000.00 0.00000

Key point number = 4

X, Y, Z= 500.000 0.00000 0.00000
  Creating line:
Line between key points 1 & 2

 Extruding line:
Extrude the line about key points 3 & 4
  Extruded model:

Meshing:
Element edge length = 30
Number of areas meshed = 4
Maximum node number = 11232
Maximum element number = 3672
 Meshed Model:

Loads:
Static analysis

Fixed at the bottom

 Force Fy on selected nodes.
Fy = -4629.60000

Eigen buckling:

Solution:
Solving the problem.

General Postprocessor:
Plot Results

Deformed shape
 VonMises stress

 Buckling
Mode shape: 1
Mode shape: 2

Mode shape: 3