Does Cross section take into account shell element thikness ?

Khalil ABBEN

Hello,

I'm using cross section to get the effort mesure in a beam section. As, I'm using a shell model to represnt a T-Beam, the calculated effort is not coherent with the value that I find when I view the constraint field and do the integration manually. As it seems the shell thikness is not taken into account. Is there an option that I have to define that forces Radioss to consider shell thiknesses or am I using the wrong tool ?

Rogerio Nakano_21179

 

Hi

 

Please refer to the documentation

 

https://2021.help.altair.com/2021.2/hwsolvers/rad/topics/solvers/rad/modeling_tools_c.htm#sections_modeling_tools_force_and_moment_computation_r_reference_dnk_f3l_hmb

 

for the process of calculation of force & moment in the cross section

 

I hope this is helpful

Regards