Shear center or neutral axis

Hi everyone, I have some matters with 1D element.

In beam structure, connecting locations by welding include shape steels as channel and angle steel (nonsymmetrical section) . Absolutely, we shall model these steels into lines. Shall we create lines on shear center or neutral axis ? What case is suitable for behavior in real-life?

Thank you everyone

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tinh

Depend on your real structure: forces are transfered via welds, sum of these forces called total force and I think beam's node should be at position of the total force.

Alex Nguyen

Thank you Mr. Tinh

Assuming I create line at shear center and connect lines together by RBE2. That's alright ?

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tinh

Please refer to CBEAM card info in Optistruct Reference Help, you could need to set offset values.

Alex Nguyen

Thank you so much Mr.Tinh /emoticons/default_smile.png' srcset='/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x' title=':)' width='20' />