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1-Visitor
December 29, 2016
Question

Beam theory usid in Simulate

hi all,

 

I'm trying to figure out what beam theory is used in Simulate with beam elements.

Is it Timoshenko's theory is which a section can rotate or is it Eulers-Bernouillis theory in which a cross section is always considered to be perpendicular to the neutral viber?

Unfortunately i cannot trace it in the help-files (is the anwer very well hidden in there?) .

 

Thanks,

Peter

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2-Explorer
January 6, 2017

It's Timoshenko. You can verify this by creating a short beam and doing a comparison analysis between one with a Poisson's Ratio of 0.3 and another with -0.999 (the latter will behave like an Eulers-Bernouillis beam).

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