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5th Mikkeli
Computational Mechanics Workshop’2010
CompMech’2010
CAD/FEA/CAE in Action!
Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences Research Centre YTI, Finland
August 2-6, 2010
Main title
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The 5-th Computational Mechanics Workshop
Granary Square – King Cross Lighting Mast
C o m p M e c h ’ 2 0 1 0 , M i k k e l i , F i n l a n d
Yury Novozhilov
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Z
X
Y~6m
~9m
~9.5m
~13.4m
40 kg
38.4 kg
38.4 kg
20 kg
400 mm
500mm
Variable thickness
Basement plate
thickness = 30 mm
Lighting Mast Design
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Z
X
Y
8-node shell elements
NE 59 453
NN 182 574
NDOF 1 095 444
Sheet metal properties:
• E = 210 GPa
• ν = 0.3
• ρ = 7800 kg/m3
• ϭ0.2(Y) = 355 MPa
FE model
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Z
Y
Shell
thickness,
mm
Freq,
Hz
Shell
mass,
kg
8 1.372 2187
6 1.240 1640
8-6-4 1.386 1641
• All DOFs for all bolts are fixed
• Prestress from gravity
Eigen frequency and first mode
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Z
X
Y
Wind load
(Z-direction)
1.2g=11.77m/s2
1 2
3
3
4
4
Z
X
Bolts group number Fixed DOFs
1 UX = UY = 0
2 UX =UY = UZ = 0
3 UY = 0
4 UY = UZ = 0
Wind load
(Z-direction)
Boundary condition
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Z
Y
Z-direction displacements
Shell thickness,
mm
Maximal
deflection,
mm
8 139
6 220
8-6-4 232
0 mm
40 mm
80 mm
120 mm
160 mm
240 mm
200 mm
Displacement scaling is 5
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Z
X
Y
Von Mises stress (8 mm)
0 MPa
50 MPa
100 MPa
150 MPa
200 MPa
250 MPa
300 MPa
355 MPa
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Bolts forces and basement von Mises stress(8 mm)
Shell
thickness,
mm
Forces at basement, kN
FX FY FZ
1 0.0 22.2 0
2 0.0 40.5 0
3 0.0 -44.1 0
4 0.0 -23.1 -3.3
5 -6.7 -79.8 -3.3
6 5.9 -90.8 -4.5
7 0.0 -30.4 -5.5
8 0.0 -55.0 0
9 0.0 47.2 0
10 0.0 27.3 0
11 -4.8 82.4 0
12 5.6 74.9 0
1 2 3
9
4
7
5
6
810
11
12
Z
X
0 MPa
50 MPa
100 MPa
150 MPa
200 MPa
250 MPa
300 MPa
355 MPa
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Z
X
Y
Von Mises stress (6 mm)
0 MPa
50 MPa
100 MPa
150 MPa
200 MPa
250 MPa
300 MPa
355 MPa
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Bolts forces and basement von Mises stress (6 mm)
Shell
thickness,
mm
Forces at basement, kN
FX FY FZ
1 0.0 20.2 0.0
2 0.0 41.0 0.0
3 0.0 -43.6 0.0
4 0.0 -20.6 -2.9
5 -6.8 -77.3 -3.5
6 6.3 -92.3 -4.8
7 0.0 -30.3 -5.5
8 0.0 -58.5 0.0
9 0.0 51.8 0.0
10 0.0 28.0 0.0
11 -5.3 85.5 0.0
12 5.8 73.8 0.0
1 2 3
9
4
7
5
6
810
11
12
Z
X
0 MPa
50 MPa
100 MPa
150 MPa
200 MPa
250 MPa
300 MPa
355 MPa
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Z
X
Y
Von Mises stress (8-6-4 mm)
0 MPa
50 MPa
100 MPa
150 MPa
200 MPa
250 MPa
300 MPa
355 MPa
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Bolts forces and basement von Mises stress (8-6-4 mm)
Shell
thickness,
mm
Forces at basement, kN
FX FY FZ
1 0.0 22.0 0.0
2 0.0 40.6 0.0
3 0.0 -42.9 0.0
4 0.0 -22.5 -3.2
5 -6.7 -78.5 -3.4
6 5.9 -90.6 -4.5
7 0.0 -30.5 -5.5
8 0.0 -54.9 0.0
9 0.0 48.3 0.0
10 0.0 27.9 0.0
11 -4.9 83.7 0.0
12 5.6 75.1 0.0
1 2 3
9
4
7
5
6
810
11
12
Z
X
0 MPa
50 MPa
100 MPa
150 MPa
200 MPa
250 MPa
300 MPa
355 MPa
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Z
X
Y
Basement reactions
Shell
thickness,
mm
Forces at basement, kN
FX FY FZ
8 0.0 -27.7 -16.7
6 0.0 -21.3 -15.4
8-6-4 0.0 -21.2 -15.4
Shell
thickness,
mm
Moments at basement,
kN/m
MX MY MZ
8 -121.4 1.1 -2.2
6 -110.4 0.0 -2.1
8-6-4 -110.4 0.0 -2.2
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Conclusions
• 3D FE model (3 iteration of shell thickness)
• Eigen frequency and first mode
• Deformed shape from wind load
• Stress distribution from wind load
• Bolts forces
• Forces and moments for basement
Possible future plans
• Buckling analysis
• Parametrical model
• Multicriteria optimization
• Submodeling of joints
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Thank you for attention!
Yury Novozhilov