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FEA help??
Hey everybody. I'm hoping this site is home to somebody proficient in SDRC I-DEAs FEA. I'm doing FEA on a vehicle space frame I designed for my vehicle design project. I used a beam mesh to create the FEA elements. When I run the analysis, there are nodes where the space frame separates without taking any load. It's because there are two nodes at that joint...one of the tubes entering that area is connected to one node, and the other tube is connected to another node. Thus, in the FEA model, the two tubes are not directly connected, so force cannot be transferred between them. So, if anybody is good with I-DEAs I could use some help letting me know how to join those nodes.
-Mat
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