CSHEAR

Bulk Data Entry Defines a shear panel element.

Format

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
CSHEAR EID PID G1 G2 G3 G4

Example

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)
CSHEAR 111 67 89 123 124 56

Definitions

Field Contents SI Unit Example
EID Unique element identification number.

(Integer > 0)
PID A PSHEAR property entry identification number.

(Integer > 0; If blank, defaults to EID)
G1, G2, G3, G4 Grid point identification numbers of connection points.

Grid points G1 through G4 must be ordered consecutively around the perimeter of the element.

(Integer > 0; all unique)

Comments

  1. All interior angles must be less than 180 degrees.
    Figure 1. CSHEAR Definition


    Figure 2. CSHEAR Element Corner Forces and Shear Flows


  2. Shear panel elements are ignored in heat transfer analysis.
  3. PARAM,SHEARALT,YES can be used to activate an alternate formulation for CSHEAR elements which can help improve results when distorted (non-rectangular) CSHEAR elements are present in the model.
  4. This card is represented as a quad4 element in HyperMesh.