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bending of a cantilever beam

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In this example, we show the application of 3D beam elements and with corotational transformation .

The model can be .

The Model

A simple cantilever beam is bent at the free end. Since the load and displacements are normalised, geometry does not affect results. Here we simply choose the following parameters: beam length L=20L=20L=20, section dimension b×h=2×2b\times{}h=2\times2b×h=2×2 and elastic modulus E=10E=10E=10.

Here five elements are used. Consequently, six nodes shall be defined.

node 1 0 0 0
node 3 4 0 0
node 4 8 0 0
node 5 12 0 0
node 6 16 0 0
node 2 20 0 0

The section can be used.

material Elastic1D 1 10
# size 2x2 using material 1
section Rectangle3D 1 2 2 1

Assuming the beam is in the xyxyxy plane, then strong axis aligns with global zzz. To define 3D beam elements, its section orientation shall be defined. The corotational formulation that supports nonlinear geometry is used.

# defining local strong axis pointing to global (0 0 -1)
orientation B3DC 1 0 0 -1.

Now define the elements. Replacing F31 with B31 to use displacement based elements.

element F31 1 1 3 1 1 5 true
element F31 2 3 4 1 1 5 true
element F31 3 4 5 1 1 5 true
element F31 4 5 6 1 1 5 true
element F31 5 6 2 1 1 5 true

It is known from the beam theory that a perfect circle would be formed if the free end is applied with an out-of-plane moment of magnitude M=αM0=α2πEILM=\alpha{}M_0=\alpha\dfrac{2\pi{}EI}{L}M=αM0​=αL2πEI​ with load ratio α=1\alpha=1α=1, which can be computed to be 4.188790205. For two circles, α=2\alpha=2α=2.

Next, we apply boundary condition and load, define recorders to record free end displacements.

# E is the shortcut for (1 2 3 4 5 6) all six DoFs
fix2 1 E 1

# apply two circles
cload 1 0 8.377580410 6 2

plainrecorder 1 Node U1 2
plainrecorder 2 Node U2 2

It shall be noted since nonlinear geometry is adopted, the stiffness may not be symmetric anymore, it is necessary to switch off symmetric matrix storage to ensure correct results are computed. Since not all nonlinear geometry problems are asymmetric, the program itself has no mechanism to check if it is appropriate to use symmetric/asymmetric storage.

step static 1
set ini_step_size 1E-2
set fixed_step_size true

set symm_mat false ! important

converger RelIncreDisp 1 1E-8 10 1

analyze

Results

Normalised displacement components are shown in the following figure.

Since VTK does not have a proper cell type for beams, linear lines are used to represent beams. Here is the animation of deformation.

B31
F31
B3DC
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Rectangle3D
displacement
animation