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Linear Static Analysis (Elasticity)

This analysis uses the data in tutorial/01_elastic_hinge.

Analysis Target

The analysis target is a hinge part. Its geometry is shown in Figure 4.1.1, and the mesh data are shown in Figure 4.1.2.

Item Description Notes Reference
Analysis type Linear static analysis !SOLUTION,TYPE=STATIC
Number of nodes 84,056
Number of elements 49,871
Element type 10-node quadratic tetrahedral element !ELEMENT,TYPE=342 Element Library
Material property name STEEL !MATERIAL,NAME=STEEL Material Data
Material behavior ELASTIC !ELASTIC
Boundary conditions Constraints, concentrated load
Matrix solver CG/SSOR !SOLVER,METHOD=CG,PRECOND=1

Geometry of the hinge part

Figure 4.1.1 Geometry of the hinge part

Mesh data of the hinge part

Figure 4.1.2 Mesh data of the hinge part

Analysis Description

Extract the FrontISTR source code, move to the directory for this example, and confirm that the files required for the analysis

File name Type Role
hecmw_ctrl.dat Overall control data Specifies the input/output files for mesh data and analysis control data
hinge.cnt Analysis control data Defines the analysis type, displacement boundary conditions, concentrated loads, etc., and specifies solver and visualizer control
hinge.msh Mesh data Defines the finite element mesh, material data, and section data

are present.

tar xvf FrontISTR.tar.gz
cd FrontISTR/tutorial/01_elastic_hinge
ls

Output:

hecmw_ctrl.dat  hinge.cnt  hinge.msh

A stress analysis is performed by constraining the displacement of the constrained surfaces shown in Figure 4.1.1 and applying a concentrated load to the loading surface. The overall control data and analysis control data are shown below.

Overall Control Data hecmw_ctrl.dat

Specifies the input/output files for mesh data and analysis control data.

#
# for solver
#
!MESH, NAME=fstrMSH, TYPE=HECMW-ENTIRE # Specify single mesh data
 hinge.msh
!CONTROL, NAME=fstrCNT                 # Specify analysis control data
 hinge.cnt
!RESULT, NAME=fstrRES, IO=OUT          # Specify result data
 hinge.res
!RESULT, NAME=vis_out, IO=OUT          # Specify visualization data
 hinge_vis

Analysis Control Data hinge.cnt

Defines the analysis type, displacement boundary conditions, concentrated loads, etc., and also specifies solver and visualizer control.

#  Control File for FISTR
## Analysis Control
!VERSION                   # Specify the file-format version
 3
!SOLUTION, TYPE=STATIC     # Specify the analysis type
!WRITE,RESULT              # Specify result-data output
!WRITE,VISUAL              # Specify visualization-data output
## Solver Control
### Boundary Conditon
!BOUNDARY
 BND0, 1, 3, 0.000000      # Specify constrained surface 1
!BOUNDARY
 BND1, 1, 3, 0.000000      # Specify constrained surface 2
!CLOAD
 CL0, 1, 0.01000           # Specify the loading surface
### Material
!MATERIAL, NAME=STEEL      # Specify material properties
!ELASTIC                   # Define elastic material
 210000.0, 0.3
!DENSITY                   # Define mass density
 7.85e-6
### Solver Setting
!SOLVER,METHOD=CG,PRECOND=1,ITERLOG=YES,TIMELOG=YES  # Solver control
 10000, 1
 1.0e-08, 1.0, 0.0
## Post Control
!VISUAL,metod=PSR           # Specify the visualization method
!surface_num=1              # Number of surfaces in one surface rendering
!surface 1                  # Specify the surface contents
!output_type=VTK            # Specify the visualization file type
!END                        # Indicates the end of the analysis control data

Mesh Data

Defines the finite element mesh and its material and section data.

(Excerpt)

!HEADER
 HECMW_Msh File generated by REVOCAP
!NODE
       1,    -1.22042,     2.23355,     1.65220
       2,    -1.27050,    -3.10529,     1.59209
...
!ELEMENT, TYPE=342
       1,    1157,    3549,    3321,    3739,   12629,   12627,   12626,   12628,   12631,   12630
       2,    8207,    3321,    3549,    3739,   12629,   12633,   12632,   12634,   12630,   12631
...
!MATERIAL, NAME=STEEL, ITEM=2
!ITEM=1, SUBITEM=2
210000.0, 0.3
!ITEM=2, SUBITEM=1
7.85e-6
!SECTION, TYPE=SOLID, EGRP=Solid0, MATERIAL=STEEL
!EGROUP, EGRP=Solid0
1
2
...
!END

Analysis Procedure

Run the FrontISTR execution command fistr1.

fistr1 -t 4

(Run with 4 threads)

##################################################################
#                         FrontISTR
#
##################################################################
---
version:    5.1.0
git_hash:   acab000c8c633b7b9d596424769e14363f720841
build:
  date:     2020-10-05T07:39:55Z
  MPI:      enabled
  OpenMP:   enabled
  option:   "-p --with-tools --with-refiner --with-metis --with-mumps --with-lapack --with-ml --with-mkl "
  HECMW_METIS_VER: 5
execute:
  date:       2020-10-07T10:01:16+0900
  processes:  1
  threads:    4
  cores:      4
  host:
    0: flow-p06
---
...
 Step control not defined! Using default step=1
 fstr_setup: OK
 Start visualize PSF 1 at timestep 0

 loading step=    1
 sub_step= 1,   current_time=  0.0000E+00, time_inc=  0.1000E+01
 loading_factor=    0.0000000   1.0000000
### 3x3 BLOCK CG, SSOR, 1
      1    1.903375E+00
      2    1.974378E+00
      3    2.534627E+00
...
...
   2967    1.080216E-08
   2968    1.004317E-08
   2969    9.375729E-09
### Relative residual = 9.39429E-09

### summary of linear solver
      2969 iterations      9.394286E-09
    set-up time      :     1.953022E-01
    solver time      :     5.704201E+01
    solver/comm time :     5.145826E-01
    solver/matvec    :     2.306329E+01
    solver/precond   :     2.632665E+01
    solver/1 iter    :     1.921253E-02
    work ratio (%)   :     9.909789E+01

 Start visualize PSF 1 at timestep 1
### FSTR_SOLVE_NLGEOM FINISHED!

 ====================================
    TOTAL TIME (sec) :     59.99
           pre (sec) :      0.71
         solve (sec) :     59.29
 ====================================
 FrontISTR Completed !!

The analysis is complete when FrontISTR Completed !! is displayed.

Analysis Results

When the analysis is complete, several new files are created.

ls

Output:

0.log       hecmw_ctrl.dat  hinge.res.0.0            hinge_vis_psf.0001
FSTR.dbg.0  hecmw_vis.ini   hinge.res.0.1            hinge_vis_psf.0001.pvtu
FSTR.msg    hinge.cnt       hinge_vis_psf.0000
FSTR.sta    hinge.msh       hinge_vis_psf.0000.pvtu

*.res.* files are result data containing the FrontISTR analysis results. They can be displayed with REVOCAP_PrePost and similar tools.

*_vis_* files are visualization data and can be displayed with general-purpose visualization software. In this example, the output is in VTK format, so it can be displayed with ParaView or similar software.

A von Mises stress contour plot created with REVOCAP_PrePost is shown in Figure 4.1.3. In addition, part of the analysis result log file is shown below as numerical data from the analysis results.

Von Mises stress analysis result

Figure 4.1.3 Von Mises stress analysis result

Analysis Result Log 0.log

 fstr_setup: OK
#### Result step=     0
 ##### Local Summary @Node    :Max/IdMax/Min/IdMin####
 //U1    0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //U2    0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //U3    0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E11   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E22   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E33   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E12   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E23   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E31   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S11   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S22   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S33   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S12   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S23   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S31   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //SMS   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 ##### Local Summary @Element :Max/IdMax/Min/IdMin####
 //E11   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E22   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E33   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E12   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E23   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E31   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S11   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S22   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S33   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S12   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S23   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S31   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //SMS   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 ##### Global Summary @Node    :Max/IdMax/Min/IdMin####
 //U1    0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //U2    0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //U3    0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E11   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E22   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E33   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E12   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E23   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E31   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S11   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S22   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S33   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S12   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S23   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S31   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //SMS   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 ##### Global Summary @Element :Max/IdMax/Min/IdMin####
 //E11   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E22   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E33   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E12   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E23   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //E31   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S11   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S22   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S33   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S12   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S23   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //S31   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
 //SMS   0.0000E+00         1  0.0000E+00         1
#### Result step=     1
 ##### Local Summary @Node    :Max/IdMax/Min/IdMin####
 //U1    3.9115E-02     82452 -7.1083E-04     65233
 //U2    7.4504E-05       354 -5.8813E-04       696
 //U3    5.9493E-04        84 -5.8751E-03     61080
 //E11   1.3777E-03       130 -1.3653E-03     77625
 //E22   4.9199E-04        61 -5.4370E-04       102
 //E33   6.8634E-04     51036 -6.1176E-04     30070
 //E12   7.1556E-04     27808 -6.8093E-04     27863
 //E23   5.3666E-04        56 -5.4347E-04        82
 //E31   7.2396E-04     36168 -9.6621E-04       130
 //S11   3.8626E+02       130 -3.6387E+02     28580
 //S22   1.6628E+02       130 -1.5743E+02     28580
 //S33   1.6502E+02     30033 -1.5643E+02     28580
 //S12   5.7795E+01     27808 -5.4998E+01     27863
 //S23   4.3345E+01        56 -4.3896E+01        82
 //S31   5.8474E+01     36168 -7.8040E+01       130
 //SMS   2.8195E+02     77625  1.2755E-02     75112
 ##### Local Summary @Element :Max/IdMax/Min/IdMin####
 //E11   1.0731E-03     10485 -1.2123E-03     41779
 //E22   3.9143E-04     33536 -4.1389E-04     22892
 //E33   5.9415E-04     44563 -5.0497E-04     47965
 //E12   5.3264E-04      9163 -5.0405E-04      9161
 //E23   3.9226E-04     33024 -4.1464E-04     23465
 //E31   5.7633E-04     43142 -4.8019E-04      9571
 //S11   2.7231E+02      9180 -2.9763E+02     41779
 //S22   1.0792E+02      9180 -1.0656E+02     41779
 //S33   1.3921E+02     44569 -1.1431E+02     47974
 //S12   4.3021E+01      9163 -4.0712E+01      9161
 //S23   3.1683E+01     33024 -3.3490E+01     23465
 //S31   4.6550E+01     43142 -3.8785E+01      9571
 //SMS   2.4057E+02     41779  3.1383E-02     38687
 ##### Global Summary @Node    :Max/IdMax/Min/IdMin####
 //U1    3.9115E-02     82452 -7.1083E-04     65233
 //U2    7.4504E-05       354 -5.8813E-04       696
 //U3    5.9493E-04        84 -5.8751E-03     61080
 //E11   1.3777E-03       130 -1.3653E-03     77625
 //E22   4.9199E-04        61 -5.4370E-04       102
 //E33   6.8634E-04     51036 -6.1176E-04     30070
 //E12   7.1556E-04     27808 -6.8093E-04     27863
 //E23   5.3666E-04        56 -5.4347E-04        82
 //E31   7.2396E-04     36168 -9.6621E-04       130
 //S11   3.8626E+02       130 -3.6387E+02     28580
 //S22   1.6628E+02       130 -1.5743E+02     28580
 //S33   1.6502E+02     30033 -1.5643E+02     28580
 //S12   5.7795E+01     27808 -5.4998E+01     27863
 //S23   4.3345E+01        56 -4.3896E+01        82
 //S31   5.8474E+01     36168 -7.8040E+01       130
 //SMS   2.8195E+02     77625  1.2755E-02     75112
 ##### Global Summary @Element :Max/IdMax/Min/IdMin####
 //E11   1.0731E-03     10485 -1.2123E-03     41779
 //E22   3.9143E-04     33536 -4.1389E-04     22892
 //E33   5.9415E-04     44563 -5.0497E-04     47965
 //E12   5.3264E-04      9163 -5.0405E-04      9161
 //E23   3.9226E-04     33024 -4.1464E-04     23465
 //E31   5.7633E-04     43142 -4.8019E-04      9571
 //S11   2.7231E+02      9180 -2.9763E+02     41779
 //S22   1.0792E+02      9180 -1.0656E+02     41779
 //S33   1.3921E+02     44569 -1.1431E+02     47974
 //S12   4.3021E+01      9163 -4.0712E+01      9161
 //S23   3.1683E+01     33024 -3.3490E+01     23465
 //S31   4.6550E+01     43142 -3.8785E+01      9571
 //SMS   2.4057E+02     41779  3.1383E-02     38687