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Create a new study
- Open FEA for Beams and frames functionality from contextual menu FEA >
- Create a new study by selecting wall panel members and pressing
- Fill study information.
- As default, each member of the study consist of one FEM beam element, when both ends of the member contains a node. All members are connected with a joint connection and they can rotate freely about Y axis.
Link nodes
- Select all parts of the study by pressing Select parts from the contextual menu of the active study in study tree.
- Link the nodes of selected parts by pressing
- In this model, diagonal parts are nested with top and bottom chords so the end nodes of the diagonals are located very near together and to the neutral axle of the chords. Thus, connection can be done by using master-slave connection when the connection will be considered as a single node in FEM analysis.
- All study members are now connected with joint connections.
Set supports
- Select the end node of linked studs (the main node of the linked group).
- Set the selected node supported by pressing Hinged >
- Repeat this process for the other studs. In this example, the supports are identical on both sides of the lintel.
Set loads
- Start adding a linear load to the top track of the wall by selecting Linear load from the ribbon tab. The linear load is set between two user defined nodes.
Solve the study
- Select
- Change stress plot to Displacement. Set Show force reactions on.
- Change stress plot to Von Mises stress. Set 3D limits if needed.
- Change stress plot to Bending moment MY. Set results display to Diagram.