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Author Topic: how to understand Buckling span.?  (Read 13886 times)

orchidworld

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how to understand Buckling span.?
« on: September 26, 2012, 10:37:56 PM »
Dear Collier engineers,

Now i have some confusion about Buckling Span of Component.

if there is a panel(see attachement document:Buckling.jpg), different components have different color, the black bold line are Beams. Hypersizer analysis the panel by analysis all components, the components is the most small analysis unit. For Example: the mark "P9" component on the picture, hypersizer takes the length and width of this component as X and Y buckling Span. i think it is not very reasonable. it is uncorrelated with the beam span. Beam's position doesnot affect panel failure and optimization. 
how to understand it?
thanks

James

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Re: how to understand Buckling span.?
« Reply #1 on: October 09, 2012, 09:24:35 AM »
The buckling spans are automatically computed using the component edges.

http://hypersizer.com/help/index.php#FE-Model-Import/import-comp-buckling_span.php

For this problem, I would suggest to manually redefine the buckling spans for each component as the distances between the beams that provide the buckling supports. This will be conservative.

-James