ANSYS Results for Monocoque structure
Preference: Structural
Preprocessor: Element type: SHELL99
Real Constants: Mat no. theta 1.0000 0.0000
thk 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