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Can you have a foundation wall where the footing extends a set amount past the ends of the wall, and can you put point loads anywhere along the length of the wall
Hello, we usually run many solving scenarios. However, we must wait until each simulation is done before continuing to the next one. Temporarily, I do it with the pyflux command. Can Altair make the macro to run it automatically? Thank you so much
I would like to perform a fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis on a thin metal plate subjected to fluid flow. Since the plate has a thin geometry, I plan to model it using a 2D shell mesh to reduce computational complexity, especially in terms of resolving the plate's thickness. My goal is to maintain the fluid…
Hello, Question about S-CONCRETE. I am designing some very long squat shear walls. I have found that in S-CONCRETE, whenever the wall length exceeds 14999mm, the box under Wall Reinforcing>Panel Reinforcing> "Include Vert Bars (N vs M)" is greyed out. I am referencing CSA A23.3-14. Walls with a height to length ratio of…
good morning, I know that the pre-tensioning force of a bolt is managed in optistruct by applying a cut in the bolt and through the use of an independent SPoint the loads are transferred to the points of the bolt on which the pre-tensioning has been applied to simulate the screwing of the nut and therefore the shortening…
Hello, I am electrical engineering student and I have started using the PSIM software. I have installed PSIM through Altair website and activated it using the student license key I've recieved. For some reason, all SimCoder library components are disabled (and cannot be enabled) I have added a picture below. What can I do…
I have a simple problem but can't seem to figure this out on the S-Foundation interface. I want to mesh my mat footing with uniform Quad elements. The mat is a rectangle with size 11m by 10m. The smaller my elements gets, for some reason I don't get elements of the same size everywhere. I start getting smaller element…
Hi Support, Assuming that I have two bulk materials A and B, and I would like to calibrate the interparticle interactions, including A-A, A-B and B-B. Take the static angle of repose test as an example, could I calibrate A-B interactions by performing the test with mixture of A and B (on the premise that the A-A and B-B…
I am asking for urgent support with this specific question Can Optistruct perform a topology optimization with overhang constraints for a structure under a nonlinear dynamic load??? or do I have to use a simple static load instead??? I am lost in documentation for the last year, I tried courses, I tried reading manuals and…
Hello, I am currently trying to automate the creation of MBS models with the MotionView Python Interface. Everything works quite good so far and I am able to define even complex models with just a python script. However, once I try to set or access any parameter from the Model.simPara class, the model is not valid anymore…
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