Elmer Discussion Forum

That would be fine with me. i would like to get the check boxes for large displacement and displace mesh working. I am reviewing the Elmer Models manual for the shell solver to see what other options are available. I will test the Cartesian.

case.sif built with shellsolver.xml. Calculate Stresses and Calculate Strains options did not work.Does shellsolver calculate stresses?

I started a shell solver xml for ElmerGUI. I was able to build most of the example, but still had to use the edit sif command to make minor changes. Some of the options I could add using the free text input. The large displacement and deform mesh check boxes didn't work in the solver general options...

ElmerGUI will only get you a small set of Elmer capability. You will have to learn ElmerGrid and ElmerSolver command lines.

You can set the initial temperature of all the bodies then specify the temperature at every coordinate by targeting coordinates or at every node by targeting nodes.
use the heatsolver for temperature and the elastic solver for strains

If you are reading the unv file into ElmerGUI there are known bugs. Using ElmerGrid to convert mesh to an Elmer mesh is a better experience. Also on this board is a Slaome python script to write an Elmer mesh directly from Salome.

Thanks Mika, great job.

Kevin

To get some rotation on the edges I extended the edges down 6 inches, the thin side walls would allow the edges of the plate to rotate some. Not a very good mesh, but the deflection is 1.3 inches.

Still getting zero edge rotation in the Elmer solution, and E1300 values appear to be for pinned supports where the edge of the plate rotates. Edges having no rotation will significantly reduce the displacement.

Yes you may.