Hi!I am modeling a steel S355 plate of dimensions 10000 x 4000 x 250mm. It is fixed in one of its boundaries and has 2 loads applied: one in its plane in the opposite boundary to the support and one acting perpendicularly in the middle of it.
I more or less followed the guideline for plates in robotoffice.com but when I start the calculation I get the warn message of isolated nodes in the model. I tried to solve this problem delating the nodes where the load is applied but of course, the load dissappears. If I disregard this message, I get no result when doing the calcualtion.
Hope you can help me with this.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Tamara
Hi tamara,
can you upload your rtd file compressed please?
Thanks.
Hi!
Thank you for the fast answer. I tried again but instead of defining the nodes for applying the loads, I used the "force in point" command. I got a result but I am not sure if this is the best way to model the plate. It is a solid steel plate and I followed these steps:
Volumetric structure design
Axis definition
Polyline/contour
Panel-and press a point inside the contour
Extrude it to the thickness (250mm)
Fixed support (linear) in one of the 4000mm length boundaries
Defined two dead loads
Load definition-force in point (and gave the coordinates and value of the two loads)
Thank you for your help.
Regards,
Tamara
Tamara,
You should use the shell design ( plate design is included).
Please see http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/robot_2010_training_manual_metric.pdf from page n°98, It should helps you to define your plate.
I'll wait your shell model
Tamara,
I think your plate is designed on the wrong plane (XZ), It should be done on the (XY) plane.
Please check it.
Hi!
I have one more question: how to check plate buckling and torsional buckling of the model?
Thank you very much!
Regards,
/Tamara