! ! File: \\e-mag.asheville.kearfott.com\sl\eng\beam1.des ! ! Perform a modal analysis on a simple pipe with pinned ends. ! ! Set the number of elements below (nel_beam) and the pipe properties ! in beam1.des ! ! This macro is useful for determining the effects of changing various ! parameters and comparing the results to Euler's beam equations. ! ! PIPE16 elements are used. ! ! Written by David Edwards, KGN Engineering, 11-29-98 ! ! Blow away current database fini /clear,start ! All input and results are written to this file /out,beam1,out ! Model Parameters nel_beam=50 ! Read in the single beam design file /inp,beam1,des /PREP7 ET,1,PIPE16 R,1,odbeam,tbeam mp,EX,1,emod mp,GXY,1,gmod mp,DENS,1,bdens mp,NUXY,1,bnu _xinc=lbeam/nel_beam ! Length of each beam element ! Create the beam nodes and pipe elements N,1,0,0,0,,,, *do,_inode,2,nel_beam+1 N,_inode,(_inode-1)*_xinc,0,0 E,_inode-1,_inode *enddo ! Uncomment the line below to build the model only. !*go,:skip FINISH /SOLU ANTYPE,2 MODOPT,SUBSP,10 EQSLV,FRONT MXPAND,10, , ,1 LUMPM,0 PSTRES,0 MODOPT,SUBSP,10,0,10000, ,OFF RIGID, SUBOPT,0,0,0,0,0,ALL D,1,all,0 D,nel_beam+1,all,0 /STAT,SOLU SOLVE :skip /out