On Jan 14, 10:11*pm, Charles Vincent wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 14, 11:31 am, "J.Kahn" wrote:
If someone was to design a steel tube fuselage or a modification to a
steel tube fuselage, does anybody know of a relatively inexpensive and
painless way to get a stress analysis done, or software to do it?

John

Sorry, I got two links mixed up. This link

http://homepage.usask.ca/~ijm451/fin...resources.html

has references that are free or donation asked. The MYSTRAN software
is $200 for a 1 year license. Cheap in the software world.

Regards,
Bud

A Finite Element Analysis package is worse than useless without mastery
of the basics. *If you can't do it by hand, what you get from FEA could
get you or someone else killed. *EAA still sells "Stress Without Tears"
that takes you through the basic principles and simplified equations for
doing stress analysis of aircraft structures. *If you can't master that,
you aren't going to do much better learning the ins and outs of meshing
for FEA.

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'Stress Analysis Made Painless' by Raoul J. Hoffman

Hand analysis can be made painless through simplified equations
available from somebody, whereas setting up a finite analysis input
file in order to let a computer do the calcs is beyond his grasp. GOT
IT! thanks.

Bud