ProductsAbaqus/Standard Elements testedCAXA4n CAXA4Rn CAXA8n CAXA8Rn (n=1, 2, 3, 4) Problem description
where is the moment of inertia of the cylinder and r, , and z are the cylindrical coordinates. Only one-half of the structure is considered, with a symmetry plane at 0. The form of the displacement solution, which is a quadratic function in both r and z, suggests that a single second-order element should model the structure accurately. The full- and reduced-integration second-order elements do use a single element mesh, but an 8 × 12 mesh is used for the fully integrated first-order elements and a 16 × 24 mesh is used for the reduced-integration first-order elements. Material:Linear elastic, Young's modulus = 30 × 106, Poisson's ratio = 0.33. Boundary conditions:0 on the 0 plane; at on the 0 plane, at 0° is set equal to at 180° with an equation constraint to remove the rigid body motion in the global x-direction. Loading:The bending load is simulated by applying a surface traction of the form on the plane of the cylinder. This is done by applying the appropriate nonuniform pressure load with a distributed load and defining the variation of the pressure in both the r- and -directions with user subroutine DLOAD. In the user subroutine the value at each integration point, which is stored in COORDS(3), is expressed in degrees. Results and discussionThe analytical solution and the Abaqus results for the CAXA8n, CAXA8Rn, CAXA4n, and CAXA4Rn (n=1, 2, 3, or 4) elements are tabulated below for a structure with and dimensions 6, 2, and 6. The output locations are at points , , , and on the 0° plane, as shown in the figure on the previous page, and at points , and H, which are at the corresponding locations on the 180° plane. The CAXA8n elements match the exact solution precisely.
Note: The results are independent of n, the number of Fourier modes. Figure 1 through Figure 4 show plots of the undeformed mesh, the deformed mesh, the contours of , and the contours of , respectively, for the CAXA4R4 model. Input files
FiguresFigure 1. Undeformed mesh.
Figure 2. Deformed mesh.
Figure 3. Contours of r-displacement.
Figure 4. Contours of z-displacement.
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