Beam Deflection and Analysis





Author: Justin Pflanz


Company: University of Nebraska - Lincoln


  1. Introduction
  2. File Information
  3. Materials
  4. Load Information
  5. Study Property
  6. Stress Results
  7. Deformation Results
  8. Design Check Results
  9. Conclusion
  10. Appendix



1. Introduction



This page is designed to help you visulize the effects of the load on our W 16 X 100 beam.


2. File Information



Model name: Part2
Model location: D:\E-Bodies\Part2.SLDPRT
Results location: C:\DOCUME~1\Pflanz32\LOCALS~1\Temp
Study name: COSMOSXpressStudy




3. Materials



No. Part Name Material Mass Volume
1 Part2 Cast Carbon Steel 1348.8 kg 0.172923 m^3



4. Load Information



Restraint
Restraint1 <Part2> on 2 Face(s) immovable (no translation).
Description:


Load
Load1 <Part2> on 1 Face(s) with Pressure 3796.2 psi along direction normal to selected face
Description:

5. Study Property



Mesh Information
Mesh Type Solid mesh
Mesher Used: Standard
Automatic Transition: Off
Include Mesh Controls: On
Smooth Surface: On
Jacobian Check: 4 Points
Element Size: 55.715 mm
Tolerance: 2.7858 mm
Quality: High
Number of elements: 18831
Number of nodes: 37510



Solver Information
Quality: High
Solver Type: FFEPlus



6. Stress Results



Name Type Min Location Max Location
Plot1 VON: von Mises stress
2127.18 N/m^2
(-5.36477e-019 m,
0.0125095 m,
2.63236 m)
4.44734e+006 N/m^2
(0.264795 m,
0 m,
-4.51657 m)



Part2-COSMOSXpressStudy-Stress-Plot1
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7. Deformation Results



Plot No. Scale Factor
1 3717



Part2-COSMOSXpressStudy-Deformation-Plot2
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8. Design Check Results



Part2-COSMOSXpressStudy-Design Check-Plot3
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9. Conclusion



Hopefully this webpage has helped you to better understand the of uniform loading on an object such as a I-beam. If you have any questions or comments feel free to e-mail me at flanders32@msn.com.
Thanks for comming to check out my site and I hope you learned something.



10. Appendix



Material name: Cast Carbon Steel
Description:
Material Source: Library files
Material Library Name: coswkmat.lib
Material Model Type: Linear Elastic Isotropic
Unit system: English (IPS)

Property Name Value
Elastic modulus 2.9013e+007 psi
Poisson's ratio 0.32
Yield strength 36000 psi
Mass density 0.28179 lb/in^3







Note:

COSMOSXpress design analysis results are based on linear static analysis and the material is assumed isotropic. Linear static analysis assumes that: 1) the material behavior is linear complying with Hooke’s law, 2) induced displacements are adequately small to ignore changes in stiffness due to loading, and 3) loads are applied slowly in order to ignore dynamic effects.

Do not base your design decisions solely on the data presented in this report. Use this information in conjunction with experimental data and practical experience. Field testing is mandatory to validate your final design. COSMOSXpress helps you reduce your time-to-market by reducing but not eliminating field tests.

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