Bridge Design





Author: Yonda Abogunrin


Company: Fifth Generaion Engineering


Date: 2/27/10



  1. Introduction
  2. File Information
  3. Materials
  4. Load & Restraint Information
  5. Study Property
  6. Results
    1. Stress
    2. Displacement
    3. Displacement
    4. Factor of Safety
  7. Appendix



1. Introduction



Summarize the FEM analysis on Aircraft Body


2. File Information



Model name: Aircraft Body
Model location: Z:\SolidWorks Documents\Yonda's Drawing\Aircraft Body.SLDPRT
Results location: C:\DOCUME~1\Student\LOCALS~1\Temp
Study name: SimulationXpressStudy (-Default-)




3. Materials



No. Body Name Material Mass Volume
1 Aircraft Body [SW]Balsa 0.0107514 kg 6.72005e-005 m^3



4. Load & Restraint Information



Fixture
Restraint1 <Aircraft Body> on 2 Face(s) immovable (no translation).


Load
Load1 <Aircraft Body> on 1 Face(s) apply normal force 200 N using uniform distribution




5. Study Property


Mesh Information
Mesh Type: Solid Mesh
Mesher Used: Standard mesh
Automatic Transition: Off
Smooth Surface: On
Jacobian Check: 4 Points
Element Size: 0.25831 in
Tolerance: 0.012915 in
Quality: High
Number of elements: 13657
Number of nodes: 35631
Time to complete mesh(hh;mm;ss): 00:00:32
Computer name: VMADMIN-054810C



Solver Information
Quality: High
Solver Type: Automatic








6. Results


6a. Stress



Name Type Min Location Max Location
Plot1 VON: von Mises Stress
1027.84 N/m^2
(-17.75 in,
0.094 in,
-1.25669 in)
6.45062e+007 N/m^2
(-7.67436 in,
-1.50657 in,
-1.49938 in)



Aircraft Body-SimulationXpressStudy-Stress-Plot1
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6b. Displacement



Name Type Min Location Max Location
Plot2 URES: Resultant Displacement
0 m
(-17.656 in,
0.094 in,
-2.84024 in)
0.00922081 m
(-9.65143 in,
-1.728 in,
-1.49852 in)



Aircraft Body-SimulationXpressStudy-Displacement-Plot2
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6c. Displacement









6d. Factor of Safety






Aircraft Body-SimulationXpressStudy-Factor of Safety-Plot4
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7. Appendix



Material name: [SW]Balsa
Description:
Material Source:
Material Model Type: Linear Elastic Isotropic
Default Failure Criterion: Unknown
Application Data:

Property Name Value Units
Elastic modulus 3e+009 N/m^2
Poisson's ratio 0.29 NA
Mass density 159.99 kg/m^3
Yield strength 2e+007 N/m^2








Note:

SolidWorks SimulationXpress 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. SolidWorks SimulationXpress helps you reduce your time-to-market by reducing but not eliminating field tests.


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