Hello,
I would like to develop a Program for finding the Stiffness of a stabilizer bar using FE methods.
I have a fairly good idea about FE methods as to how to proceed but the books i referred to mostly dealt with symmetric solids.
Can someone throw light on FE procedure for such component with a complicated shape(or some books that deal with 3D assymmetric solids)..??
Thanks.
Are you modeling the bar as
Are you modeling the bar as a beam? If yes, this problem has been solved by the general-purpose cross-sectional analysis tool VABS. It can generate a 4x4 stiffness matrix for the classical beam model, a 6x6 stiffness matrix for the Timoshenko model.