I have a coworker who has spent the better part of a day beating his head against the wall on this one:
Does anyone know of any specification, industry or otherwise, for a C-10 gas cylinder connector?
We have a small compressed gas regulator. The regulator inlet is configured to connect to a...
Tmoose: There are some other column buckling calculators around that will let you go to a smaller diameter, like this one:
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I am pretty certain that a 3/4" dia, 30" long pinned end column won't buckle under a 1000 lb load (I did use the calculator to double check). I am more concerned...
The size I'm looking for would be around 30" long and have 3/4" dia pins in the end clevises. It would be rated for at least 1000 lbs of compression load.
I'm working on replacing a 4" ball valve in a run of horizontal pipe. All structure that could be used to attach supports for the weight of the valve is below the valve. The engineer who originally designed support for the valve used 2 generic McMaster-Carr turnbuckles from the to support the...
Are you putting a preload on the bolt or just using the RBE2 to rigidly connect the 2 parts? If you're not using it for preload, is that really the best way, or should you define a bolt connection region? I am horribly inexperienced at Femap (just look at my other threads and you'll see), so...
Dumb Femap question of the week:
I'm working on my analysis of a valve in a length of piping. I need to analyze two cases. In the first case, the valve is supported by hangers. In the second case the valve is supported by the pipe. I'd like to keep both results sets in the same file.
So, is...
Anybody know a best practice technique for applying point loads (simulating component weights) to a long horizontal cylinder?
In my specific scenario, I have a large valve on a run of horizontal piping. For the analysis, I would like to just model the pipe and then apply a load to simulate the...
Oops, only one image per post I guess. Here is the first image.http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=cc9293d7-8515-4607-ac63-c7546654ea95&file=Capture1.JPG
I am so bad at Femap... I'm trying to draw a straight line beginning from the upper left point shown in the first image I posted. For the first point of the line, I use the "on point" method to select it. For the second point, I'm trying to use the "at distance" method since all I know is a...
I think that did it. Thanks for the help. I was concerned that since my geometry is made up of multiple solids, and since the mesh is one big mesh covering more area than any single solid, the association would do something screwy. It seems that Femap programmers have come through for once...
I'm working on 3D meshing a semi complex solid. I decided to make it easier on myself by cutting the solid down the line of symmetry, meshing the remaining half, and then mirroring (or is it called reflecting?) the mesh before I apply loads. I wanted to mirror the mesh because the loading is...
