How to evaluate Non Structural Mass and Mass

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Good morning,

 

I have to check the total weight of a nastran FEM model,I m using hw12,

and I need to know the non structural mass contribution and density contribution.

 

Is there any way to do it?

 

I tried using summary template and element calculate but I get always the total mass 

In other preprocesor I know that is possible to get the two contributions.

 

Thank you a lot for your help

 

Have a nice day

gio

 

 

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited December 2014

    If you know what type of mass element used, you can make a small tcl script to compute that.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited December 2014

    Hi joy_deutch

     

    Here is a work-around:

     

    In component browser you should be able to see the structural mass for individual components. Total structural mass will be sum of the structural mass and non-structural mass will be (Total mass-total structural mass)

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