*HEADING : BOX FRAME SECTION, THERMAL LOADING [FRAME2D] *REST,W *PREPRINT,MODEL=YES *NODE 1, 0.0, 0.0 11, 75., 0.0 *NGEN,NSET=ALL 1,11,2 *ELEMENT,TYPE=FRAME2D, ELSET=EALL 1,1,3 2,3,5 3,5,7 4,7,9 5,9,11 *ELSET, ELSET=FOUR 4, *FRAME SECTION,SECTION=BOX, ELSET=EALL, DENSITY=8000.0E-4, ZERO=-10., DEPENDENCIES=1 4., 2., .2, .1, .2, .1 0., 0., -1. 3.E6, 1.1538E6, .001E-4, -10., 0. 0.5E6, 0.5769E6, .003E-4, 90., 0. 3.E6, 1.1538E6, .001E-4, -10., 1. 1.5E6, 0.5769E6, .002E-4, 90., 1. *INITIAL CONDITIONS, TYPE=TEMPERATURE ALL, -10. *INITIAL CONDITIONS, TYPE=FIELD, VARIABLE=1 ALL, 1. *BOUNDARY 1, 1, 2 1, 6 *********************** STEP 1 *STEP *STATIC *CLOAD 11,2,25.E-4 *EL PRINT SF, SEE, *EL FILE, ELSET=FOUR SF, SEE, *NODE FILE U, COORD RF, *NODE PRINT U, RF, *ENERGY FILE *ENERGY PRINT *OUTPUT, FIELD, FREQ=99, VAR=ALL *OUTPUT, HISTORY, FREQ=99, VAR=PRESELECT *ENERGY OUTPUT, VAR=PRESELECT *END STEP *********************** STEP 2 *STEP *STATIC *DLOAD EALL, GRAV,10.0E-4, 0., -1., 0. *END STEP *********************** STEP 3 *STEP,PERTURBATION *STATIC *DLOAD EALL, PY, -12.16E-4 *EL PRINT SF, SEE, *EL FILE, ELSET=FOUR SF, SEE, *NODE FILE U, COORD RF , *NODE PRINT U, RF, *ENERGY FILE *ENERGY PRINT *OUTPUT, FIELD, FREQ=99, VAR=PRESELECT *OUTPUT, HISTORY, FREQ=99, VAR=ALL *END STEP *********************** STEP 4 *STEP *STATIC *DLOAD EALL, P2, -12.16E-4 *END STEP *********************** STEP 5 *STEP thermal loading. the cantilever tip is also fixed. *STATIC *CLOAD, OP=NEW *DLOAD, OP=NEW *TEMPERATURE, OP=NEW ALL, 90. *FIELD ALL, 1. *BOUNDARY 11, 1, 2 11, 6 *EL PRINT SF, SEE, TEMP, THE, *EL FILE, ELSET=FOUR SF, SEE, THE, *NODE FILE U, COORD, RF, *NODE PRINT U, RF, *ENERGY FILE *ENERGY PRINT *OUTPUT, FIELD, FREQ=99, OP=ADD *ELEMENT OUTPUT, ELSET=EALL SF, SEE, THE *NODE OUTPUT, NSET=ALL U, RF, *OUTPUT, HISTORY, FREQ=99 *ELEMENT OUTPUT, ELSET=EALL SF, SEE, *NODE OUTPUT, NSET=ALL U, RF, *ENERGY OUTPUT, VAR=ALL *END STEP *********************** STEP 6 *STEP, PERTURBATION thermal loading. (2) the cantilever tip is also fixed. Note that the derivative of the thermal strain with respect to the temperature at 90 degree temperature is used as the thermal expansion coefficient for this perturbation step. Refer to the equation on page 12.1.2-1 of v5.7 /Standard User's manual for computing this value. It turns out to be 0.003E-4 and not 0.002E-4. *STATIC *TEMPERATURE ALL, 100. *EL PRINT SF, SEE, THE, *EL FILE, ELSET=FOUR SF, SEE, THE, *NODE FILE U, COORD, RF, *NODE PRINT U, RF, NT, *ENERGY FILE *ENERGY PRINT *OUTPUT, FIELD, FREQ=99, OP=ADD *ELEMENT OUTPUT, ELSET=EALL SF, SEE, *NODE OUTPUT, NSET=ALL U, RF, *OUTPUT, HISTORY, FREQ=99, OP=REPLACE *ELEMENT OUTPUT, ELSET=EALL SF, SEE, THE *NODE OUTPUT, NSET=ALL U, RF, *ENERGY OUTPUT ALLWK, ALLPD, ALLSE, ETOTAL *END STEP