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Hi gwillis Can you please show an image or a model as it is difficult to tell what you are aiming for. A cross shape for two bars would have 5 possible locations for bolting which of these should be free to rotate?
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Thanks for the comments guy!
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JohnM, thanks for your response. Are you guys generally using brick meshes or surface meshes? I am not sure about Solidworks and Inventor, but FreeCAD cannot create a midsurface from a 3D model. The fixing up of my models usually pertains to develop…
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Hi Sergio Out of curiosity why didn't you just use beam elements for the model, and design all the structural members and lugs using design codes?
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A Bit expensive, but the below book is pretty good, works in-conjunction with design codes. https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Element-Design-Concrete-Structures-2nd/dp/0727741896
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Hi Guys Just my opinion on the aspect of designing concrete, being a structural engineer. I previously did design work on coal pre-cast bunkers, in general we would model using beam and shell elements (without reinforcement), however design was n…
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Thanks guys, appreciate the replies
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Hi Jalal I have done something in the past which may help, it was for conveyor design. What I did was to develop a program in excel which created a .liml file (which is text readable). This file basically developed the entire model (including loadi…
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Will there be a feature that allows one to view mass participation? If not, it would be nice to have such a feature
