Apply nodal displacement from saved eigevectors

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

Hi all,

 

I need to apply a nodal displacement X to my model and evaluate the stress.

The displacement X should be the nodal amplitude at a natural frequency normalized to the largest displacement (I can use NORM=MAX in the eigrl card)

 

What I can't understand is how I can apply the nodal normalized displacements to the model to evaluate the stress. Maybe using EIGVRETRIEVE as input in 'post>apply results' in Hypermesh? 

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2018

    HI,

     

    EIGVRETRIVE retrieves results of normal modes analysis which are saved using EIGVSAVE

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2018

    In few words I need to apply a static displacement to the nodes of the model. 


    The displacement should be the normalized eigenvector a the first modal frequency. But I am still trying to understand how. 

    The only thing that I have understood so far is that with RESVEC i can output the normalized eigenvector (see picture).

     


     

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>RESVEC.JPG

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2018
    Altair Forum User said:

    natural frequency normalized to the largest displaceme

    Can you explain a little more about this?

     

    From what I understood, I can suggest you to run a Modal frequency analysis with displacement load applied. 

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2018

    Hi Prakash,

     

    There is a technique to evaluate the stress on a component at its natural frequency without running a frequency response analysis.

    Clearly, it is an approximation since it does not take into account the damping effect. I want to investigate what the error is in terms of percentage.

     

    In order to do so, I need evaluate the normal modes of the component (it can be done by running a modal analysis). For each natural frequency

    (eigenvalue) there is a modal shape associated (eigenvector).

     

    I need to apply as 'displacement load' one of the modal shapes found in the modal analysis.

    The eigenvector that I need to apply to the part should be normalized to the largest displacement of the eigenvector. Namely, the largest nodal displacement

    should be 1 and the other displacements between 0 and 1.

     

    There are 2 things that I am not able to do yet:

     

    1) save the modal shape for a natural frequency (NORM=MAX may normalize the vector the way I need)

    2) apply the shape vector obtained in point 1 to the structure

     

    Sorry if I didn't make myself clear in the first post. I can also make a little presentation to explain it better.

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