Assignment

A linear static analysis of a steel plate with a elliptical hole & find the stress
concentration factor and verify the results with theoretical results.

Given Data:-

P= 1020 N , L= 100 mm, W= 100 mm, t=10 mm .

Semi major axis 10mm and semi minor axis 5mm.

Step 1:-

Open hyper works > hyper mesh desktop

Set the user profile as optistruct solver.

Step 2:- Create material.

Click on the Material collector icon.

On mat name enter steel as name of the material, select colour from colour
panel, click on type and select isotropic as the material type, click on card image
and select MAT1 as the card image, then click on the create/edit.
a new window will open in which we can add further information about the
material properties, here click on [E], [Nu] and [Rho] and keep the values as it
is shown

Click return twice to exit the material collector panel.

Step 3:- Create property

1. Click on the property collector icon.

2. In prop name= enter Plate _prop as property name, select a different colour
from the colour panel, in type= select 2D, in card image= select PSHELL, click
on material tab and select steel from the list of materials. Then click create/edit.

3. A new window will open. Enter the value of thickness.

Click return twice to exit the property collector panel.

Step 4:- Create component.

1 .Click on component collector icon as shown

2. Click on create radio button. Enter Comp_plate as the comp name =, select a
different colour from the colour panel. Click on the property= option and select
plate_prop as the property type which you have created in step 3.
3. Click create, to create component.

4. Click return, to exit the component collector.

Step 5:- Creating Model

Geao>nodes

click on and gives x,y,z co-ordinate according to your model.

The co-ordinates of nodes are (0,0), (100,0), (100,100), (0,100) ,

(50,50),(40,50),(60,50),(50,45),(50,55),(0,50),(100,50) and click F button to set
the screen and return.

1. Then create surface by joining nodes. Go to geometry and join all nodes
using lines click on check closed line box uncheck and select two nodes
and click create.
2.Now click on this icon to create a ellipse and check the closed line box
and select the all four nodes of semi minor and semi major axis.

click create and return.

Step 6. Creating surface for model

1.go Geom>surfaces>click on for spline surface.

all other parameter should be like below figure. Ensure that lines is chosen.
With shift key + Right button of mouse and select all area of model by dragging
.
click on create and return.

3. Trim model between to parts.

Geom>surface edit>trim with nodes

selecting nodes fig. should like that

click on return.

Step 7. Meshing

1. Access the Ruled mesh panel one of the following ways:

· From the menu bar, choose Mesh > Create > 2D Elements > Ruled
· Select the 2D panel and click on the ruled button.
2. Make sure that the yellow selector button is set to “line list” (not “node list”)
3. With the first (upper) “line list” yellow button selected, move the mouse
cursor over the top edge of the ellipse (in the center of the part)
4. With the cursor near the top edge of the ellipse, hold down the left mouse
button and slowly move the cursor down toward the center of the circle just
enough so that the top edge of the circle is highlighted.
5. Let go of the left mouse button. The top edge of the ellipse should now be
selected.
*If at any time the complete circle is accidentally selected, click on the button to
the right of the “line list” button in order to clear the selection:
6. Make sure that the yellow selector button is set to “line list” (not “node list”)
7. Click on the second (lower) “line list” yellow button. Left-click the left, top,
and right sides of the rectangular section .
8. In the middle of the panel, make sure that the “mesh, w/o surf” option is
selected (it may be necessary to click on the black downward triangle and select
it from the list of options).
9. Make sure that the auto reverse option is checked.
10. Click create. A ruled mesh is now created, and the mesh density panel is
displayed. Element size should be 2.
11. On the right side of the panel, to the right of “elem density =” and just
below the green “set all to” button, enter in 100 for the edge element density.
12. Left-click the number displayed (“100”) on the top edge of the circle.
13. Click mesh. The edge element density on the top edge of the circle (as well
as the total edge
density along the left, top, and right edges of the rectangular middle section) is
now set to 100.

14. On the left edge of the panel, select the density

15. In the middle of the panel, to the right of button, enter 3.00.
16. Click on the “0.000” number. And mesh.
17. Click return. The ruled mesh panel is now displayed again.

18. Repeat this process for the lower half.

Stetp 8:-

Apply constraint to your model

1. Right-click on the Model Browser tab and click on Create > Load Collector.

2. In the Entity Editor, set the name to SPC and change the colour of the load
collector.

3. From the pull down menu, click on BCs > Create > Constraints.

4. Change the entity selection to nodes.

5.selecting all left hand side nodes by using shift key +right mouse button and
dragging like that only end line is selected.

5. Select the lower left-hand side point and fix 1, 2, 3, 4,5,6 DOFs and click on
create.

Step 9:

Apply the forces to your model

1. Create a new load collector named Force .

2. From the pull down menu, click on BCs > Create > Forces.

3. Set all the parameter according to below fig.

4. Click create.
Step 9:

Define the load step

1. Right-click in the Model Browser and select Create > Load Steps.

2. Enter the following information into the new load step through the Entity
Editor
Step 10:

Run the analysis

1. From the Analysis page, click OptiStruct to access the launch panel.

2. Click on save as฀ to select a location to run the solution at.

3. Click on OptiStruct to export the model with the default filename and start
the solution.
4. Wait until the message Process completed successfully appears in the prompt
window.

This message means that the process has run without error and the result files
are available

for post-processing.

Step 12-

POST PROCESSING

Click on the XY Top Plane View, .

click on contour button . And enter the following details .

Result type > Element stresses and Averaging Method> simple

click on apply.

Now go to result panel and click on query.

Resuly>Query.

and selected desired nodes for we want to know stress.

so we have stress concentration as

. 8
Kt = = . 7
2.2

And theoretically stress concentration for plate with elliptical hole =

1+ × ( ⁄ ) = + × .5 = .

So analysis give accurate result.