We were looking at the FEMAP/Nastran route as well as ANSYS when we finally ended up with Solidworks/COSMOS. Either were more expensive. I liked the FEMAP interface, but then again, that wasn't for the full-blown NASTRAN.
I think the boss's view was that all of 'em can do garden- variety...
Tony,
Thanks so much for a valuable post. Fortunately, I was able to understand it!
I had hopes that indeed the conversion would work (plus spent 30 bucks & too much valuable time on that paper). Mainly because after years of using WECAN (red-headed stepchild of ANSYS) we switched to COSMOS...
Twoballcane,
In a way, that's just what I'm trying to do. I put an FEA model on a "virtual vib table," apply the reasponse spectrum as input base excitations, and see if something bad happens.
BTW, that's an interesting handle you have. Sounds like a character from Genesis.
Tom
Actually, the response spectrum in this case represents an earthquake, or more precisely, a curve of points that represent the acceleration (at each frequency) that a single-degree-of-freedom spring-mass-damper system that is resonant at the given frequency, would have to the eartquake...
Thanks, snoopoon.
But somehow it seems more complicated than that. There is a paper I found at http://tinyurl.com/6evc5m (actually the ASCE website). It talks about Monte Carlo simulations and what not.
Just going by the units, it would seem that, as you say, you take a given point (or...
Hello, all.
Did a search and found this thread: thread384-106639
My problem is that I am using Solidworks 2008 and it's accompanying Cosmosworks. Now several times a year I get jobs doing seismic analysis for various components at nuclear power plants. The plants typically provide Response...
