Added highlights for multiiple e-match rows in Wiring Script report also highlighted non-blank notes fields centered text in various columns highlighted rail/pin columns general formatting improvements.Added report configuration option to center text alignment in chosen fields.Fixed gear menu 'Reset table layout' which didn't work in the racks window.Fixed annoying bug in the gear menu 'Select/edit/save table layout from report' functions that reformatted the window unnecessarily.Fixed the description field formatting in rows so that it contains ellipses at the end if and only if the row represents multiple devices that are not all the same no ellipsis if they are the same.For printed reports, disabled the automatic quantity in parentheses prepended to the description names, since reports typically have a separate column for device quantity if desired.Fix the couple of missing properties from the sort-by selectors and other selectors in the report config dialogs.Added Safety Distance column to positions window and added 'Position Safety Distance' to the script window by reference to make it available in reports, especially for the safety distance report that compares effect safety distances with position safety distance.Added EX Number, UN Number, and CE Number script columns, refering effects table, making them available to reports and labels.Added support for Cobra 36 LED Par Light, which is compatible with EasyDancing fixtures.Added a large section of conditional formatting options to reports for changing the formatting of cells or rows based on user-defined criteria.Added option to turn off zebra striping on reports.Widened menus on report config dialogs.It is certain that the extraction time required to convert the 3D geometry into 2D surface model for shell elements and 1D for beam elements require sufficiently long time, there is a substantial savings of computational power during the solving process. It is also important to enter the correct physical property to define the thickness since shell elements assume that the stress varies linearly from top to bottom. To utilize shell elements, it is required first to extract surfaces from 3D solid model and determine regions requiring beam and shell elements. It combines the benefits of shell and solid elements together, producing better results without the cost of additional computational power.
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Leading FEA software such as ANSYS also offers an additional 3D solid-shell element which is both geometrically and spatially 3D and performs well for wide range of thicknesses for plate structures. Thin Plate Shear Stress Evaluated using Shell Elements Beam elements can also be applied together with shells in structures consisting of long slender beam or truss type structure.
These shell elements are geometrically 2D but spatially 3D, which means they are suitable for 3D thin to moderately thick structures. Shell elements are suitable for think structures having thickness at least 20 times than the span.
Shell elements on the contrary are ideal for such applications, which apart from simulating the bending effects more accurately also consume less computational power compared to solid elements. Shear Stress Locking Phenomenon Observed in Solid Shells for Thin Plate Such problem can be resolved by refining the mesh with more number of elements, but it will consume more computational time. This causes the stress and strain distribution to distribute unevenly, causing drastic variations in the results. While these DOFs are suitable to evaluate bulk solid structures, for thin walls these elements have locking tendency while transferring the results of bending effects to adjacent element. Solid elements particularly have three transitional degrees of freedom at each node.
While in most 3D simulations, solid elements are required, it is found that these elements do not give desired results for thin and slender structures. The results of finite element analysis hugely depend on the type of element used to convert the geometry into smaller elements. Using Shell Elements for Your FEA Simulation