hello, I'm studying a support element (midplane section below). On the left, a vertical load is applied and the two red elements are radial supports.
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Herebelow a view of half-model (symmetric with respect to the XY plane below).
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Calculation performed on standard fem software show smooth stress concentration in the throat section.
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With simsolid:
1 - first problem: the hemi-cylindrical surface is imported as a single surfaces (even if it is separated in order to apply the support restraints).
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2 - stress distribution is unrealistic, even worse if I set forther refinements (activate feature adaptation or increase the number of adaptive solutions). Here is the von Mises stress with default options
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Any idea? here annexed the model (test.zip).
Tyia
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