OS-E: 0200 Beam Bending
A comparison study of the bending of a straight cantilever beam modeled using shell elements in OptiStruct Nonlinear transient dynamic analysis with the Radioss Explicit Solution.
Model Files
Model Description
This example has a simple cantilever beam with an end moment. The moment variation is modeled by introducing a constant imposed velocity on the free end. The moment is applied on a rigid body created at one end of the beam and on the other end all the DOF’s are blocked.
- Shell Elements
- First order Quad elements
- Property
- Value
- Young's Modulus
- 1000 MPa
- Poisson's Ratio
- 0
- Initial Density
- 0.01 g/mm3
- Reference Density
- 0.01 g/mm3