FINITE ELEMENT MODEL VALIDITY CHECKS 1.A and 1.

1.A - Unit Enforced Displacement and Rotation

Purpose

The Unit Enforced Displacement and Rotation check verifies that no illegal grounding
(such as incorrect SPC or MPC)is present in the model. The model should move as a
rigid body when it is translated one unit or rotated one radian. This check verifies
displacements, element forces, and grid point forces. The check is performed in all three
translational and all three rotational directions. This check outputs lots of data. In order
to read all the output in an efficient manner, a program called PCHSCAN was written to
scan through the punch files of displacement and force results created by NASTRAN. A
description of How To Use PCHSCAN is included here for reference .

Output Results

The displacements results from the three translational subcases should be 1.0 in the
input direction and 0.0 in the other five directions. From the rotational subcases, the
rotation in the input direction should be 1.0 and the other two rotations should be 0.0.
The three translational displacements from the rotational subcases will not be zero. The
element forces and grid point force balances should be zero with a maximum of 0.1 lb
force and 1.0 in-lb moment. The grid point held should not have other SPC's, and, for
best results, should be near the center of gravity of the model.

Input Required

EXECUTIVE DECK must include the following information:

SOL 24 or 101 for MSC

CASE CONTROL must include the following information:

SPCFORCES=ALL
DISP=ALL
GPFORCES=ALL
ELFORCES=ALL
SPC=100

(only for normal plate or solid rotations and the structure must be free at base)

SUBCASE 1
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED DISP IN X DIRECTION
LOAD=100
SUBCASE 2
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED DISP IN Y DIRECTION
LOAD=200
SUBCASE 3
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED DISP IN Z DIRECTION
LOAD=300
SUBCASE 4
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED ROTA ABOUT X AXIS
LOAD=400
SUBCASE 5
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED ROTA ABOUT Y AXIS
LOAD=500
SUBCASE 6
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED ROTA ABOUT Z AXIS
LOAD=600

BULK DATA must include the following information: (The displaced grid is grid point
17104 in this example.)

BEGIN BULK
SPCD 100 17104 1 1.0
SPCD 200 17104 2 1.0
SPCD 300 17104 3 1.0
SPCD 400 17104 4 1.0
SPCD 500 17104 5 1.0
SPCD 600 17104 6 1.0
$ SPC FOR UNIT ENFORCED DISP CHECK
$234567812345678123456781234567812345678123456781234567812345678123456
78
SPC1 100 123456 17104
FORCE 100 17104 0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
FORCE 200 17104 0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0
FORCE 300 17104 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0
MOMENT 400 17104 0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
MOMENT 500 17104 0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0
MOMENT 600 17104 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0

1.B - Unit Enforced Displacement or Rotation

with Different Output Coordinate Systems

EXECUTIVE DECK must include the following information:

SOL 24 for MSC

$ CAUSES GRID DISPACEMENTS TO BE OUTPUT IN THE BASIC COORD. SYSTEM

$ !WARNING! OUTPUT ONLY DISPLACEMENTS
$ *********FORCES AND SUCH MAY NOT BE CORRECT*********
COMPILE SOL24,SOUIN=MSCSOU
ALTER 160 $
PARAM //'ADD'/ALWAYS/-1/0 $
VECPLOT UGV,BGPDT,EQEXIN,CSTM,CASECC,/UGVBASIC//0/1 $
EQUIV UGVBASIC,UGV/ALWAYS $
ENDALTER

CASE CONTROL must include the following information:

$SPCFORCES=ALL
DISP=ALL
$GPFORCES=ALL
$ELFORCES=ALL
SPC=100 $(only for normal plate and solid rotations
$ and the structure must be free at base)
SUBCASE 1
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED DISP IN X DIRECTION
LOAD=100
SUBCASE 2
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED DISP IN Y DIRECTION
LOAD=200
SUBCASE 3
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED DISP IN Z DIRECTION
LOAD=300
SUBCASE 4
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED ROTA ABOUT X AXIS
LOAD=400
SUBCASE 5
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED ROTA ABOUT Y AXIS
LOAD=500
SUBCASE 6
SUBTITLE=UNIT ENFORCED ROTA ABOUT Z AXIS
LOAD=600

BULK DATA must include the following information:

BEGIN BULK
SPCD 100 17104 1 1.0
SPCD 200 17104 2 1.0
SPCD 300 17104 3 1.0
SPCD 400 17104 4 1.0
SPCD 500 17104 5 1.0
SPCD 600 17104 6 1.0
$ SPC FOR UNIT ENFORCED DISP CHECK
$234567812345678123456781234567812345678123456781234567812345678123456
78
SPC1 100 123456 17104
MOMENT 400 17104 0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
MOMENT 500 17104 0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0
MOMENT 600 17104 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0
FORCE 100 17104 0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0
FORCE 200 17104 0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0
FORCE 300 17104 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0