Shear Panel property is a physical property assigned to surface elements. This property can be applied only on linear quadrangle elements (QD4).
A shear panel property references a material assigned to the surface part and describes a thickness associated to this surface part. A shear panel property is associative to the geometry this property points at.
Associated to this property, linear quadrangle elements (QD4) have:
- a plane stress state,
- two degrees of freedom per node (both translations in the finite element plane),
- no transversal stiffness,
- longitudinal shearing.
The input and output characteristics are:
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Input:
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Material
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Thickness
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Output:
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Stress
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Strain
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Point force vector
- Elastic energy
- Elastic energy density
- Estimated error
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Those characteristics can be expressed at the given positions in the elements and in different axis systems:
Position
Axis System
Characteristics
Center of element
Nodes of element
Gauss point
Global
Local
Stress
Strain
Point force vector
Elastic energy
Elastic energy density
Estimated error
