02-17-2021, 09:22 AM
Hi,
I am experimenting with Mystran with Femap and would like to share and have comments on the observations, and after all would appreciate help to adjust the settings correctly. These may be sometimes Femap related questions or issues but also Mystran related. I have only done one analysis and haven't checked the Mystran documentation very carefully so that these might be more of a rookie type questions/observations.
First of all I am impressed how well the key results are in line with Simcenter Nastran results without any adjustments at all. Here's what I've done:
- opened up a random FE model consisting of plate elements, some glue contacts, and few RBE2 elements. The analysis for this had been done earlier using Simcenter Nastran.
- exported the analysis model (without any adjustments, i.e. Simcenter Nastran version)
- run it with Mystran
- imported the Femap neu file
The few things that caught my eye comparing the results:
- The deformation looks very similar by eye
- the max total translation in Simcenter Nastran was 1.883 mm and RSS translation in Mystran 1.909 mm, so no big difference (1.4 %)
- the max vonMises bot stress differs quite a lot but this is difficult to compare. See next observations.
- the result scale (contour levels) is something odd. For these translations (max 1.909 mm) the scaling is from 0 to 1.826E+10 when it should be from 0 to 1.909. Of course I can change it manually but for automatic detection it seems to have some kind of scaling issue.
- the scaling issue seems to be the problem for dynamic rotation also. When tried to rotate the model even slightest of rotation will throw the model off the screen somewhere in the space and in practice the rotation can not be done.
- the element results are shown in transparent type of way in which it is difficult to observe which element is which when front and back and all in between are in a same spot. I couldn't figure out how to change this. This is not the same transparency as in Femap but something related to the results.
- the result vectors are numbered very differently from Nastran. There is also separated results for QUADs and TRIAs which is perhaps not very necessary but inconvenient sometimes
Has anyone any ideas how to improve the performance of Mystran results in Femap related to above mentioned observations? Can I adjust something somewhere?
I am experimenting with Mystran with Femap and would like to share and have comments on the observations, and after all would appreciate help to adjust the settings correctly. These may be sometimes Femap related questions or issues but also Mystran related. I have only done one analysis and haven't checked the Mystran documentation very carefully so that these might be more of a rookie type questions/observations.
First of all I am impressed how well the key results are in line with Simcenter Nastran results without any adjustments at all. Here's what I've done:
- opened up a random FE model consisting of plate elements, some glue contacts, and few RBE2 elements. The analysis for this had been done earlier using Simcenter Nastran.
- exported the analysis model (without any adjustments, i.e. Simcenter Nastran version)
- run it with Mystran
- imported the Femap neu file
The few things that caught my eye comparing the results:
- The deformation looks very similar by eye
- the max total translation in Simcenter Nastran was 1.883 mm and RSS translation in Mystran 1.909 mm, so no big difference (1.4 %)
- the max vonMises bot stress differs quite a lot but this is difficult to compare. See next observations.
- the result scale (contour levels) is something odd. For these translations (max 1.909 mm) the scaling is from 0 to 1.826E+10 when it should be from 0 to 1.909. Of course I can change it manually but for automatic detection it seems to have some kind of scaling issue.
- the scaling issue seems to be the problem for dynamic rotation also. When tried to rotate the model even slightest of rotation will throw the model off the screen somewhere in the space and in practice the rotation can not be done.
- the element results are shown in transparent type of way in which it is difficult to observe which element is which when front and back and all in between are in a same spot. I couldn't figure out how to change this. This is not the same transparency as in Femap but something related to the results.
- the result vectors are numbered very differently from Nastran. There is also separated results for QUADs and TRIAs which is perhaps not very necessary but inconvenient sometimes
Has anyone any ideas how to improve the performance of Mystran results in Femap related to above mentioned observations? Can I adjust something somewhere?