Lab Assignment 1
Lab Assignment 1
o Introduction (What was the objective of the assignment? What were the design requirements?)
o Description of design (including geometric and material information, and mass)
o Description of failure scenario and the FE model
Describe the overall situation. What types of failure are studied? What assumptions are made?
Describe the actual physical boundary conditions (loads and supports) for each load case.
Show the mesh and types of elements used. What simplifications did you make for your model?
Show how the supports and loading conditions were applied. Which degrees‐of‐freedom were
restrained at each support?
o Discussion of results of FE analysis
What levels of stress are predicted? Where are they highest?
Did the stresses exceed the allowable stress? What is the safety factor for the given loads?
What are the calculated deflections and sway?
What is the structural efficiency score?
o Description of verification of FE analysis
Did structure displace in the expected way?
Are support conditions maintained as intended?
Perform check calculations for simplified structure.
How close are the results of the FEA to the check calculations?
o Conclusions (Will the structures fail? What is the Structural Efficiency Score?)
Be sure there is no confusion about units.
The report should be about 15 pages long, having mostly figures and
calculations. A template is provided on the course web page.
9. Submit the report electronically as a single PDF document via eCampus. The PDF
document file name must start with your name or mix username and include the
assignment number.
Due date/time: Feb. 8, 2017.