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  • Ng2020
    Ng2020 replied to the thread Plate Bending Problem.
    Ok so if it's an internal stowage compartment door, look at ac 25-17. Specifically section 104. It provides guidance as to where dual...
  • Ng2020
    Ng2020 replied to the thread Plate Bending Problem.
    Is the door large enough that it would be prudent to have 2 latches for redundancy? If you only have 1 latch to play with, then I...
  • Ng2020
    Ng2020 replied to the thread Blind rivet tension allowable.
    Dca. For ref, in Mccombs supplement to bruhn Appendix A, there is generalised guidance for estimating a rivet's tensile allowable for a...
  • Ng2020
    Ng2020 replied to the thread NAS517 tensile strength.
    For conventional airframe fasteners - once you understand the requirements of your specific- a reasonable starting point is the...
  • Ng2020
    When effecting your modification on the OEMs FE mesh, did you actually change the topology (add delete elements)? Or did you only change...
  • Ng2020
    Do-160 is not a 'requirement' but can be best described as an faa-recognised means of demonstrating the suitability of systems &...
  • Ng2020
    Ng2020 replied to the thread safety margins for composites.
    Sw: in the context of part 25 composite primary structures, aren't ohc design values used for static strength in order to envelope the...
  • Ng2020
    Ng2020 replied to the thread Omniscient Elon Musk seez.....
    He once said he wanted retire on Mars, sounds like his one-way ticket will be subsidised.
  • Ng2020
    Ng2020 replied to the thread Fuselage Skin Panel Shear Flow.
    Presumably with the "low level of shear", all the panel load components are fairly low and so the panel remains stable to ultimate load...
  • Ng2020
    Ng2020 replied to the thread Threaded Rod Design.
    The typical practice in aerospace structures analysis is to assume an eccentricity of L/400 to account for initial imperfections.
  • Ng2020
    Have a read of this. Might provide a bit more friendly guidance than the d6 doc...
  • Ng2020
    Thanks for the responses all!
  • Ng2020
    Rb: yes, each subassy requires its own reserved range of node/element/prop numbers. Model config control is a significant task even...
  • Ng2020
    Thanks Thomas, ideally i was after dynamic linking. We can live with a manual hack using import or merge. (We don't have teamcentre)
  • Ng2020
    File Merge is a manual one off operation effecting permanent changes to the Modfem. I'm after automatic dynamic linking of files.

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