Examples

Examples

Flexible Rod Buckling Under Torque

Frame • CE221

Flexible Rod Buckling Under Torque

Geometrically nonlinear analysis of a shaft buckling under torsion.

Force vs. Displacement formulations

Force vs. Displacement formulations

An investigation of various frame formulations

Helical Forms

Helical Forms

A highly geometrically nonlinear problem is solved with the geometrically exact frame element formulation.

Python • Tcl • Frame

Linearized Buckling

Corotational frame elements are used to approximate Euler's buckling load.

Plane Tapered Cantilever

Plane Tapered Cantilever

A finite element analysis is performed of a plane tapered cantilever using constant-strain triangles.

Pure flexure

Pure flexure

Bilinear quadrilateral elements are used to solve the infinitesimal pure bending problem.

Rigid Offsets

Geometric transformations are employed to model rigid joint offsets in frames.

Shell undergoing finite rotations

Shell undergoing finite rotations

Geometrically nonlinear analysis of a cantilever rolling up under the action of a point moment, performed with shell finite elements.

Solid extrusions

Solid extrusions

Mesh generation utilities are used to create a 3D tetrahedron model of a cantilever beam with a channel cross section.

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