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Buckling analysis of cylindrical shell

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1. Buckling analysis of cylindrical shell

Geometric Properties
Radius=2m
Height=5m
Thickness=0.005m

Boundary condition
Fixed at bottom surface
Ux=Uy=0 at top surface

Material properties
E=7e+10 N/m2
=0.3

Loading condition
Force=-50KN/m on top edge of the cylinder

Element Type
QUAD4 shell element

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PROCEDURE
STEP
1. Create a Cylindrical surface
Command

: SURFACE, CYLINDER

Menu

: Geometry
Surface
Create
Cylinder

Parameters
0/0/0
2
5
4
1

Centre
Radius
Height
Segments
Workplane ID

At the end of the above operations, your screen should look like this.

*Now change to view direction to bottom view from view menu.

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2. Meshing the surface using quadilateral elements

Command

: FEM, QUAD

Menu

: Mesh
FE Mesh
Generate Quad

Parameters

1T4
10/40
1
1/1
1
1

Surface IDS
Subdivisons
Element order
Bias Factors
Material ID
Property ID

At the end of the above operations, your screen should look like this.

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3. Delete surfaces
Command

: SURFACE, DELETE

Menu

: Geometry
Surface
Miscellaneous
Delete

Parameters

Surface IDS

4. Specify material properties

Command

: MATERIAL, ADD

Menu

: Property
Material
Isotropic
Add

Parameters

:
1T1600
7e+10/0.3/0

Element IDs
Material Data

5. Specify thickness
Command

THICKNESS, ADD

Menu

Property
Physical
Thickness
Add

Parameters

1T1600
0.005
1

Element IDs
Thickness
Set ID

6. Specify Displacement Boundary Conditions

a.

Specify boundary conditions

Command

: BC, ADD

Menu

: Load/BC
Displacement BC
Add

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Parameters

:
1T11/453T462/904T913/1355T1363
1/0/2/0/3/0/4/0/5/0/6/0
0

Node IDs
BC value
LCS ID

b.

Specify boundary conditions at top surface

Parameters
Node IDs
BC value
LCS ID

:
441T451/893T902/1344T1353/1795T1803
1/0/2/0
0

At the end of the above operations, your screen should look like this.

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7. Specify Point Load along top circumference of cylinder

Command

: FORCE, ADD

Menu

: Load/BC
Point Load
Add

Parameters

Node IDs
Data
Component
LCS ID

441T451/893T902/1344T1353/1795T1803
-15692.38
Fz
1

At the end of the above operations, your screen should look like this.

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8. Set the analysis type

Command

: ANTYPE, SET

Menu

Analysis
Analysis Type

Parameters
Buckling

Analysis Type

9. Set the analysis options

Command

: ANOPTION, ANOPTION

Menu

: Analysis
Analysis Options

Parameters

Linear Solver
Eigen Solver

MultiFrontal
Subspace iteration

10. Specify Static generate data

Command

: BUCKLING, ADD

Menu

: Analysis
Buckling
General
Add

Parameters

No of Eigen values

10

11. Save the project model

Menu

File
Save

12. Specify number of sub structures

Command

: SET, NSUBST

Menu

: Setting
Substructures

Parameters
1

No of substructures

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13. Submit the job into FEAST

: Analysis
Run solver

Menu

At the end of the above operations, your screen should look like this.
Click here

After the solution is completed the message successfully completed appears in the
message box

14. Perform post processing

a. Critical Load factor
Command
Menu

: POST, VBUCKLING
: Post
Buckling
View results
Critical load
Filename.out

Results file

At the end of the above operations, your screen should look like this

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b. Buckling Mode Shape

Command : POST, BUCKMODE
Menu

: Post
Buckling
Mode shape

Parameters :
At the end of the above operations a table as shown below.

c. Output can be seen in *.OUT file

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