I'm doing an analysis of a cast steel structure made in 1953 as part of a 120" road wheel dyno used for testing aircraft wheels and brakes. Typical rolled shape structural steel would be 33ksi for that time. Any ideas on what a typical cast steel yield strength would be from that time?
Our firm just purchased STAAD Pro v8i and I'm trying to use it to do a FEA on a fairly complicated steel casting. I've never used STAAD for FEA and am realizing as I'm building the model that it has some serious limitations for what I'm trying to do. I'm finding reasonable work arounds for...
