Straight cantilever beam
StaticIn developmentElement accuracy on rectangular, skewed and tapered meshes
- Source:
- MacNeal-Harder (1985)
- Tolerance:
- 2%
Problem statement
- Geometry
- Straight prismatic beam meshed three ways — rectangular, parallelogram and trapezoidal elements — to expose mesh-distortion sensitivity.
- Material
- Linear-elastic isotropic material, E = 10×10⁷, ν = 0.3.
- Boundary conditions
- Clamped at one end; unit end loads for extension/bending and a unit tip moment for twist.
- Measured quantity
- Tip displacement/rotation for extension, in-plane bending, transverse bending and twist.
Script
Lands with the scripting engine (see Documentation) — this setup will be runnable from commands, no manual rebuild needed.
Results comparison
The solver core is still in development — there's no result yet. It'll appear here right after the first run, no retouching.
Updated: not yet run